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mumbai, Mar 31 : Arup Roy Choudhury, CMD, NTPC Limited inaugurated the commercial operation of 5MW Solar Power Plant at NTPC Dadri on Saturday. This is the first solar power plant of NTPC, a new beginning in renewal energy sector. Speaking on the occasion Choudhury said that NTPC had plans to set up the solar power plants in line with 2% clean energy policy of the government. Choudhury further said that NTPC would plan add another 300MW Solar capacity in the ongoing12 th Five Year Plan. NN Misra, Director (Opera-tions), AK Jha, Director(Technical), AN Dave, RED (NC&CA), Shri MKV Rama Rao, ED(Commercial), DK Sood, GM (I/C) and senior officials of NTPC were present on the occasion. Sood briefed about the salient features and operation of the solar power plant. The solar plant, built at a cost of Rs 48.59 crore, is spread over in 27 acres of area. The solar plant is estimated to generate 7.26 million units of power annually. The electricity generated by this solar plant will be supplied to Odisha based public sector power purchasing company GRIDCO under a power purchase agreement. It may be recalled that recently the state of Maharashtra has put into execution mode its solar power plants at Dhule, Nashik and Bhadrawati in Chandrapur district. |
