NTPC has set up 450 MW capacity solar power plants in the southern region. Of which 217 MW would be a floating solar power plant.
In a virtual press conference in Hyderabad, the Executive Director of the southern region in NTPC, Mr. CV Anand said, “India’s largest floating solar power plant of 100 MW capacity, belonging to the National Thermal Power Corporation, is expected to be commissioned at Ramagundam in May this year.
The floating solar photo-voltaic project would be spread over 450 acres on the water surface of the Sri Ram Sagar Project reservoir. This will be the largest floating solar plant in the country in a single location as of now. The total cost of the project would be ₹423 crores, including GST”
Further, He added, “NTPC is utilizing the water bodies and huge reservoirs to set up these floating solar units because it requires huge expenditure for the ground-mounted plant. For setting up one MW solar photovoltaic plant on the ground, we require five acres.”
Apart from the 100 MW plant at Ramagundam, the corporation is installing two other solar power plants in Kerala, 92 MW at Kayamkulam Gas Plant and 25 MW at Simhadri Power Plant at Visakhapatnam.
MR. CV Anand further said, “We are slightly delayed in implementing these floating solar projects due to the Coronavirus pandemic.”
Explaining further to other solar power projects of the NTPC southern region, he said that 5 MW solar plant was set up at Port Blair Solar in Andaman & Nicobar Islands on March 30, 2012, that catered to the power needs of the Union territory; a 10 MW solar plant was commissioned at Ramagundam December 31, 2013, and the phase I- of the 250 MW (5X50 MW) Ultra Mega solar project was commissioned at NP Kunta village of Anantapur district in Andhra.
Next year, NTPC is setting up a solar power plant in Ettayapuram near Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, which will have a 230 MW capacity. The average cost of setting up a solar plant is around ₹4 crore per MW.
Telling about the other venture of the solar power plant, Mr. Anand said, “The executive director said it was in the process of commissioning 2×800 MW coal-fired thermal power project at Ramgundam in Telangana. The phase I unit of 800 MW will be commissioned by January 2022 and phase II of 800 MW by March 2022.”
The corporation has installed a total of 64,880 MW solar power plants in the country, out of which NTPC has installed solar power plants with a total capacity of 9,125 MW in the southern region.
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