Kolkata Port Trust Gets First MW Sized Solar Plant, Vikram Solar The EPC

• Ports, with their vast and holdings should be prime prospects for even more solar, and also KoPT's start rates.

Vikram Solar, among India's leading module producers and a noticeable EPC solar remedies carrier commissioned a 1 Megawatt (MW) solar plant for Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), The Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port Trust. This is KoPT's first solar plant situated at the Haldia Dock Complex, KoPT. It was inaugurated by the Minister of Ports, Shipping and also Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal. The ground placed restricted solar plant of KoPT is anticipated to create 1.4 million units of green power annually.

Speaking on the celebration, Gyanesh Chaudhary, Managing Director, Vikram Solar, stated that "We are proud to partner with Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) on their initial step in the direction of solarisation. We are positive, KoPT's commitment in the direction of energy sustainability will motivate various other infrastructure advancement projects and organizations to shift to tidy power sources to satisfy their power demands and allow India's power safety. We hope to partner KoPT in their future ventures in the direction of improving their green energy profile. As India's biggest solar module supplier, we will certainly continue to team up with our customers to deliver the most effective of quality as well as efficiency solar services, upholding our dedication of making it possible for tidy power change in India and also across the globe."

A.Ganesan, General Manager( Engineering)-- Haldia Dock Complex, KoPT claimed, "We rejoice for the successful commissioning of the 1 MW solar plant. This is our primary step towards green power adoption as well as reiterates our commitment towards adding to the National Solar Mission while reducing our carbon footprint as well as efficiently picking to restore the climate. We picked Vikram Solar as our green energy partner for this project after assessing their remarkable EPC portfolio, dependable and also top notch products and their durable project-execution capacities. We have further plans to broaden our green power portfolio as well as we urge others to pick energy sustainability via solar.

Like a lot of significant solar module manufacturers in the nation, Vikram Solar has a considerable EPC visibility. It has 1441 MW+ (commissioned + under execution) EPC capability. With shown capacity to manage utility scale projects (225 MW for NTPC in Bilhaur-Uttar Pradesh, 200 MW for APGENCO in Ananthapuramu-Andhra Pradesh, 130 MW for NTPC at Bhadla-Rajasthan, 80 MW for GIPCL at Charanka- Gujarat, 50 MW for NTPC at Mandsaur-Madhya Pradesh), besides airport setups (Kolkata, Calicut, Dibrugarh, Kochi, Gaya, Gondia).

Vikram Solar has actually been a market leader with a production capacity of 2.5 GW as well as the firm has actually shipped over 3.5 GW PV modules globally.