Six PSUs sign up for world’s largest solar plant

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Six state-owned companies have come together to set up the world’s largest single-location 4,000-MW ultra mega solar power project in Rajasthan.

The joint venture company will have equity participation of 26 per cent from BHEL, 23 per cent from SECI (Solar Energy Corporation of India), 16 per cent from SSL (Sambhar Salt Ltd), 16 per cent from Power Grid, 16 per cent from SJVNL (Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam) and 3 per cent from REIL (Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments Ltd).

Conceived in August last year, it took five months for the project to come to the MoU stage.

“The memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed today will need to get the approval of the Cabinet,” minister of heavy industries and public enterprises Praful Patel said, as quoted by PTI.

The department of heavy industry would set up a special purpose vehicle for executing this project, which will require an investment of Rs 7,500 crore in the first phase.

The project will come up on 19,000 acre of surplus land available with SSL in Sambhar, Rajasthan. The equipment will be supplied by BHEL, power evacuation by Power Grid, sale of electricity by SECI, operation & maintenance by REIL and project management by SJVNL.

The project will be developed in different phases in 7 to 8 years. The first phase of 1,000 MW is planned to be set up in about three years. The other 3,000 MW will be set up in subsequent phases.

The Solar PV (photo-voltaic) power plant will use PV modules based on crystalline silicon technology. With an estimated life of 25 years, the 4,000 MW of the solar plant is expected to supply 6,400 million units of energy per year and consequently help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by over 4 million tonnes per year, said a government release.

Six PSUs sign up for world’s largest solar plant - Financial Express

 

[HariPrasad]

Gujarat already has Asia's largest solar power plant. Now Gujarat is planning the biggest in world. It is nice to see Rajasthan competing. Gujarat and Rajasthan (Both BJP Governments) are competing for world's biggest.

Best of luck!!!!!!

 

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bravo. this is the way good governance work..hope they will implement asap

 

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Gujarat's first solar rooftop project generates 1.2 million units in six months

The state's first roof-top solar energy project in Gandhinagar that started operating this year has so far generated a total of 1.2 million units of solar power.

In the first six months of operations, nearly 260 small residential households participated in the first phase of the project in Gandhinagar with a total generation potential of one megawatt,stated an official release from Gujarat Power Corporation Limited (GPCL) which is in-charge of developing and implementing the rooftop solar concept in Gujarat.

To facilitate this partnership, Gujarat Power Corporation has opened a facilitation centre at Gandhinagar where households willing to offer their roof can enroll for an initial assessment of the technical suitability of the rooftops. Till date over 760 KW of residential leases have been signed by the developers with 260 residents in Gandhinagar. The rooftop owners get at least Rs. 3 per unit of energy generated as a rooftop rental. So far, about 3.2 MW of solar rooftopsystems have already been installed in the state's capital.

“The total installation capacity under the Gandhinagar project is five megawatts. Out of this, four megawatts will be installed on government buildings and a total of one megawatt will be installed on private residential homes. We are now taking this successful program to Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Mehsana and Vadodara in the second phase where we plan to generate 25 megawatt of energy”, says Gujarat minister for Energy, Saurabh Patel.

80 per cent of the capacity for the Gandhinagar Project will be made available from government buildings while the balance 20 per cent of the capacity will be installed on residential premises.

Selected after a competitive bidding process, two experienced companies -Azure Power and Avantha Sun Edison are developing the project inGandhinagar.

The two companies are now installing and maintaining solar photovoltaic systems on rooftops of homes and government buildings. The solar photovoltaic systems convert direct sunlight into electricity which is fed into the electrical grid.Under this model, the solar power generated by rooftops is sold by Azure and Sun Edison at a competitively determined tariff to Torrent Power - a private distribution company that operates the electricity grid in the capital

Gujarat's first solar rooftop project generates 1.2 million units in six months - Financial Express

 

[HariPrasad]

This is excellent. The most important thing is that it is totally independent. It will continue to power in case grid fails. You can use this power to synchronize Grid very fast and restore normalcy.