Tata Power Solar has received a letter of award (LoA) to build 95 megawatt (MW) of solar photovoltaic project worth about Rs 460 crore for Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd (GSECL). Tata Power Solar, India s largest integrated solar company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Power, has received a letter of award (LoA) to build 95 MW of ground-mounted solar PV project for GSECL, according to a statement. The project s order value is about Rs 460 crore (USD 63 million). The commercial operation date for this project is set for April 2022. With this addition, the order pipeline of Tata Power Solar Systems Ltd (TPSSL) stands at about 4.2 gigawatt peak (GWp) with a value of about Rs 12,500 crore, thereby cementing its position as India s leading solar EPC player for seventh year in a row among utility scale.
Gujarat emerges as top destination of hybrid RE capacities
December 15, 2020
First three years will see commissioning of about 14,000 Mw RE capacities at Kutch Gujarat is all set to become home to World’s largest hybrid renewable energy (wind and solar) park with a combined capacity of 30 Gigawatt (GW) as Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays the foundation stone for the iconic project.
Modi claimed that the park, spread across 70,000 hectares, is as big as countries like Singapore or Bahrain.
In his address during the foundation-stone-laying ceremony held at Dhordo near the India-Pakistan border in Kutch on Tuesday, Modi said, “Close to ₹1.5 lakh crore will be invested in this hybrid renewable energy park and provide employment to about 1 lakh people. There can be no better way to use the wasteland and desert land. Windmills along the border will be useful for border security. Above all, every year, it will save 5 crore tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. It will significan