Andhra Pradesh’s single largest floating solar project launched at NTPC in Vizag
The Simhadri unit of National Thermal Power Corporation of India Limited (NTPC) launched the 25MW of floating solar power project at its unit premises in Visakhapatnam.
The project is being developed in its own resorvoir spread over 150 acres. The first 5MW block was completed and inaugurated by Diwakar Kaushik, head of the unit, on Wednesday.
It is expected to complete the balance works by June 2021 and full 25MW will be made available to the grid, Kaushik added. Power flow of more than 2MW was witnessed with present solar irrdiance, he said.
This is going to be the single largest floating solar PV project of Andhra Pradesh once commissioned, he added. Two numbers of solar inverters, each having a capacity of 2.5MW, were switched on through Control Monitoring and Control Station.
This prestigious project is being executed by M/s BHEL for a value of Rs 110 crores.
