India’s largest floating solar plant to be operational in next three months

The largest generation floating solar power plant in the country will be operational by next May-June with the generation capacity being developed by NTPC in the reservoir of its thermal plant at Ramagundam in Peddapalli district of Telangana. Work on the 100 MW plant is in the final stages of completion.

It will be one of the renewable (solar) power plants being developed by NTPC in the southern region with an installed capacity of 447MW and the entire capacity will be operational by March 2023. Barring a 230MW on-ground solar power plant at Ettayapuram alone, NTPC’s Regional Executive Director (South) CV Anand in Hyderabad’s Thoothukudi district in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, the remaining 217MW capacity is being planned to be commissioned by May-June this year was.

The renewable power plants to be commissioned in the next three months are the 100MW plant at Ramagam, in addition to the 25MW floating solar plant at Simhadri Thermal Power Plant near Visakhapatnam and the 92MW floating solar plant at Kayakulam in Kerala. The NTPC official said that reservoirs would be installed in all the thermal plants, with the immediate available opportunity to install solar plants without any land acquisition.

“A floating solar plant is an opportunity to generate electricity with low cost as there is no fixed cost involved in land acquisition of at least five acres per MW capacity. Since there are a large number of reservoirs in the southern region including Telangana, this would be a great opportunity to go for renewable energy in floating solar method.

FGDs on Construction

NTPC official said work on FGD is going on in all the schemes in the southern region and it will be completed by December 2022. time limit. He stated that the cost of installing the FGD system was ₹ 0.30 per unit of production capacity. “Although it is quite high, it has been invested for a better environment”, he said.

In the first phase of the 2 × 800 MW Telangana Super Thermal Power Project (TSTPP), coming to its existing Ramagundam plant location, Mr. Anand said that it should have been operational by now, but the COVID-19 pandemic affected the plans And again – alcohol work, which was not available during the lockdown period and until a few months after that, and the work was now in full swing.

Mr. Anand said that we have plans to commission the first unit by January 2022 and the second unit after two months. Mr. Anand said that this project is coming up with FGD system as it is now the norm. Answering a question on the fate of TSTPP’s second phase of 3 × 800 MW capacity, he clarified that it was not abandoned, but had not yet been approved by the corporate office. He said, “Work on it will go on steam, because when everything goes well, it will be approved.”