Reliance Power commissions India’s largest solar photovoltaic power plant

31 Mar 2012 Evaluate

Reliance Group Company - Reliance Power has commissioned India’s largest solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant. The 40 megawatt (MW) ground-mounted system has been developed in a record period of five months by the company in Village Dhursar, near Pokaran, in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan.

The Dhursar plant is expected to generate more than 70 million kilowatt hours of clean, green energy annually, making Dhursar the largest plant of its kind in the country. The site is spread over an area of 350 acres and it will supply clean energy equivalent to consumption of 75,000 household.

The Reliance Power Plant uses new and efficient technology like thin film, it is estimated that the clean energy generated from the solar plant will displace over 70,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, the equivalent of taking 25,000 cars off the road.

The 40 MW solar power project has become the first power project of the country to tie up financing with international lenders only. The 40MW solar PV project, with an investment of Rs 700 crore, is financed at debt- equity ratio of 75:25.

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