DVC to Execute 1776 MW Floating Solar Projects in West Bengal and Jharkhand

• The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) is planning to implement 1776 MW of floating solar projects in 4 of its dams in West Bengal and Jharkhand.

State-owned thermal power major Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has announced that it will focus only on solar projects to add new capacity to its portfolio. According to a leading company authorities, the firm has already mooted 1776 MW of floating solar projects in four of its dams in West Bengal as well as Jharkhand, both states that jointly possess the company together with the Union government.

DVC has finalised a 50-MW floating solar project at Panchet (West Bengal), the tender for which has actually been floated, he claimed.

"We will certainly execute 1776-MW floating solar plants in the 4 dams of Maithon, Tilaya, Konar and also Panchet. The project will certainly be executed in 3 phases and the first will certainly be of 50 MW," DVC participant assistant Prabir Kumar Mukhopadhyay told PTI. He additionally said that the business has actually zeroed in on the L1 bidder for the Panchet project and also the work order will certainly be finalised in early October.

The expediency research of the solar projects, which are likely to utilise about 15 percent of their abilities, was executed by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).

Mukhopadhyay stated the corporation has big systems of land as well as in the last two years, it had retired old thermal abilities to the tune of 840 MW at Bokaro, Chandrapura and also Durgapur.

Just recently, we had reported that the West Bengal government is intending to establish floating solar energy projects in a big means as it does not require a large tract of land. The government is discovering opportunities to occupy 5 MW floating solar projects on large fish ponds in the Bandel thermal power plant location, state power priest Sovandeb Chattopadhyay had actually stated.

The state is likewise appointing the country's biggest grid-connected floating solar project at Sagardighi thermal power plant in Murshidabad at a price of Rs 22 crore, he claimed.

"We are searching for more locations for setting up floating solar projects, particularly in thermal plant locations of the West Bengal Power Development Corporation (WBPDCL). "There is extent at the Bandel system in Hooghly. We will certainly explore possibilities and I believe it can house huge projects of 5MW and even much more. We wish to increase our eco-friendly portfolio," Chattopadhyay told local press.