Diu has become the first and only Union Territory in the country to be fully run on solar energy.
Diu has an area of just 42 square kilometres and population of 56,000. For water and electricity, the Union territory was solely dependent on Gujarat government.
The UT generates total of 13 megawatts (MW) of electricity from solar power generating facilities daily.
Of this, 3 MW is generated by rooftop solar plants and 10 MW by its other solar power plants.