BS Reporter in Chennai
For the first time in the country, Tata BP Solar India Ltd, a joint venture of Tata Power and BP Solar, has installed and commissioned a megawatt-scale solar power plant under the rooftop and other small solar power generation plant scheme as part of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM).
The project is owned and developed by B&G Solar Private Limited at Komal West village in Mayiladuthurai district of Tamil Nadu.
India's first unique solar plant
Image: BP Solar project.According to K Subramanya, CEO, Tata BP Solar, as the EPC contractor its own team worked in tandem with the B&G Solar team to complete the project ahead of time.
India's first unique solar plant
Image: Solar power.This project uses 4,400 crystalline silicon modules of 230 watt each spread out over an area of 5.5 acres.
India's first unique solar plant
Image: A solar-powered street light.The solar power plant will generate 1.49 million units of electricity per year.
India's first unique solar plant
Image: Solar panels.The plant is designed to run for 25 years and the crystalline silicon modules manufactured and supplied by Tata BP are guaranteed to perform for this period of 25 years with minimal degradation in the power output over the long life time.
India's first unique solar plant
Image: B and G Solar.B&G Solar chairman V Bhaktavatsalam said this was the first the solar plant to be commissioned out of a total of 80 such plants totalling 100 Mw coming up all over the country under the rooftop solar plants scheme of the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (Ireda).
India's first unique solar plant
Image: A shopkeeper adjusts a solar panel at his shop in Gosaba.Photographs: Jayanta Shaw/Reuters.
Of this, 1100 MW grid-connected solar power capacity is to be installed in the first phase ending in March 2013. Nearly 800 MW of this has already been allocated and is currently under execution.
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