GEDCOL

India's state-owned National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has actually signed an agreement with the Green Energy Development Corporation of Odisha Ltd (GEDCOL) for the development of 500MW of floating solar projects in the eastern state of Odisha.

The state, which is intending to hit 2.2 GW of solar within two years, has actually gotten a Solar Energy Corporation of India proposal for 500 MW of floating project capacity also as it accepts a 40 MW water-borne range advanced by the nationwide solar body. The 500 MW suggested comes on top of a similar scale of floating PV planned throughout the state by public hydropower company NHPC.

The Government of Odisha will certainly carry out the growth of roof solar PV power projects with a recommended ability of 16.653 MW in 17 cities of the state.