SECI to Set Up 40 MW Floating Solar Plant in Odisha

• Around Rs 200 crore will be invested to set up the plant.
• Land acquisition will not be required and also just 1 sq kilometres location in the tank will certainly be made use of for the objective.

A solar energy plant with a capability to produce 40-megawatt (MW) power will be installed at the Hirakud Dam Tank in Odisha's Sambalpur district, an official claimed, according to media reports.

It will be set up by the Solar Energy Firm of India (SECI), which is under the Ministry of New and Renewable Resource (MNRE). Floating panels, installed on a framework that floats on a waterbody, will certainly be installed to generate 40 MW power, the official claimed.

Around Rs 200 crore will be spent to set up the plant, claimed Ananda Chandra Sahu, chief engineer of the Upper Mahanadi basin. Land procurement will certainly not be called for as well as only 1 sq kilometres area in the reservoir will be used for the objective.

The floating panels will certainly likewise cover the water and also aid in reducing the dissipation loss of the reservoir, he included.

Hydro-power is likewise created from the water of the multi-purpose Hirakud Dam project, inaugurated in 1956, set up for flood control, irrigation, as well as power generation.

When it come to other renewable resource projects recently revealed in Odisha, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Coal India, exposed last month that it will certainly set up a 50 megawatt (MW) solar power plant in the city of Sambalpur at a total price of Rs 301.92 crore. MCL has placed a turnkey order to set-up a 50 MW solar energy plant with a Chennai-based company Hild Energy Ltd, which prepares to develop this green energy project within a timeline of 10 months. This project is expected to reduce CO2 discharge by 91,020 tonnes per annum as well as carbon offsets of around 24,824 tonnes per annum.

A month earlier, in October, Tata Power and also Tata Steel, both flagship firms of the Tata Group, announced a collaboration to develop 19.22 MWp. grid-connected solar plants in Kalinganagar, an intended industrial and also contemporary town in Odisha. The community will certainly have Kalinganagar will have 9.12 MWp roof PV capacities, as well as floating PV will certainly comprise 10.10 MWp.