Bhel To Set Up A 5 Mw Solar Plant In Chennai

Bharat Corpulent Electricals Ltd intends to set up a 5 MW solar power plant in its heater promote plant arduous at Ranipet close to Chennai. An endorsed of BHEL theoretical that the stately sector power furniture stately is state of affairs up the plant for confined expenditure of electricity the plant would join. The endorsed disclosed this so answering a affair of Mr K Venugopal accessory of Tamil Nadu Electricity Dictatorial Assignment, at an associations decorous by the Alliance of Indian Affair for spreading appeal on REC/RPO works. He wanted to assemble whether the solar plant would be eligible for each 'renewable energy certificates' and carbon credits. (It was clarified that it is.) At Ranipet, BHEL has a unreserved arduous of 163 acres. A 5 MW photo voltaic solar plant, based on crystalline silicon technology, would need about 25 acres. Status, in this manner, is no issue for BHEL. BHEL itself manufactures PV modules at its plant in Bangalore. It produces each mono and poly silicon-based cells and modules from wafers bought (fundamentally) from Japan. With the main inputs land and key furniture ready inhouse, BHEL believes it would be able to put up the plant in terse period, in reveal itself that it is able to reduce its faith on diesel-based power that it uses, whenever grid power is not ready which is for 6 to 8 hours a day. Below the extant system of the REC works, an separate that puts up a solar (or renewable energy based) plant and itself consumes the energy, it is stable eligible to get trade-able renewable energy certificates. enhanced at: http://www.steelguru.com/indian news/BHEL to set up a 5 MW solar plant in Chennai/285656.html