NMRC to buy solar power for all 21 stations on Aqua Line
Shikha Salaria | TNN | Nov 13, 2018, 05:30 IST
Representative image NOIDA: The Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) will buy solar power from a private company at Rs 3.25 per unit and supply it to all 21 stations on the Aqua Line.
NMRC signed an agreement with Sukhbir Agro Energy Ltd and plans to install solar panels on the roof, parking area and boundary wall of the depot. Officials said the panels would generate 10MW of electricity and supply it to the stations. Sukhbir Agro bagged the tender after DMRC issued a second bid earlier this year. The company will start installing the panels in about a month.
PD Upadhyay, executive director of NMRC, said the agreement would last 10 years and the corporation would buy electricity at the rate of Rs 3.25, which officials claimed was the lowest across all metro networks in the country. An NMRC official said the cost of purchasing power from other sources would have come to around Rs 6 per unit.
The project has been awarded to Sukhbir Agro under the RESCO (Renewable Energy Service Company) model, which includes providing energy to consumers from renewable sources such as solar photovoltaics, etc. Tenders had to be issued the second time as bids could not be finalised in the first attempt.
While other networks like the Delhi and Nagpur metros too use solar panels installed on rooftops, their power consumption pattern is a little different from the one planned for the Noida-Greater Noida line. Delhi metro too procures solar power for its over 150 kilometre-long phase III project, the panels are installed only at elevated metro stations, with a power generation of about 25MW.
Officials said the installation of solar panels on the Aqua Line would continue even as the route is thrown open to public by the end of this month. Until then, operations on the route will run with electricity sourced from UPPTCL. Upadhyaya said NMRC had received a subsidy of about Rs 14 crore from the ministry of new and renewable energy. The power purchase agreement was signed between NMRC general manager (projects) Manoj Vajpayee and officials of Sukhbir Agro.
NMRC signed an agreement with Sukhbir Agro Energy Ltd and plans to install solar panels on the roof, parking area and boundary wall of the depot. Officials said the panels would generate 10MW of electricity and supply it to the stations. Sukhbir Agro bagged the tender after DMRC issued a second bid earlier this year. The company will start installing the panels in about a month.
PD Upadhyay, executive director of NMRC, said the agreement would last 10 years and the corporation would buy electricity at the rate of Rs 3.25, which officials claimed was the lowest across all metro networks in the country. An NMRC official said the cost of purchasing power from other sources would have come to around Rs 6 per unit.
The project has been awarded to Sukhbir Agro under the RESCO (Renewable Energy Service Company) model, which includes providing energy to consumers from renewable sources such as solar photovoltaics, etc. Tenders had to be issued the second time as bids could not be finalised in the first attempt.
While other networks like the Delhi and Nagpur metros too use solar panels installed on rooftops, their power consumption pattern is a little different from the one planned for the Noida-Greater Noida line. Delhi metro too procures solar power for its over 150 kilometre-long phase III project, the panels are installed only at elevated metro stations, with a power generation of about 25MW.
Officials said the installation of solar panels on the Aqua Line would continue even as the route is thrown open to public by the end of this month. Until then, operations on the route will run with electricity sourced from UPPTCL. Upadhyaya said NMRC had received a subsidy of about Rs 14 crore from the ministry of new and renewable energy. The power purchase agreement was signed between NMRC general manager (projects) Manoj Vajpayee and officials of Sukhbir Agro.
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