The 12-acre facility is the first and largest solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Maharashtra and one of the largest in India. The company established its first solar power plant of 100 kW in 1996 at Walwhan in the state of Lonavla.
Anil Sardana, Managing Director, Tata Power, said, the commissioning of the grid connected 3 MW Solar power plant in Mulshi marks a significant milestone for Tata Power.
“This addition reinforces the Company’s sustainability agenda and the commitment of setting up generation capabilities through renewable sources,” said Sardana.
“MERC is one of the regulators to have adopted Renewable Power Obligations (RPO) and Tata’s customers in Mumbai would be getting Green Power through solar energy,” he added.
The energy produced from the 3 MW Solar plant in Mulshi will be purchased by Tata Power- Distribution in Mumbai to meet the RPO as per MERC guidelines. Tata BP Solar is the technology provider for the project.
The Company has an aggressive plan of generating 25000 MW by 2017, with 20-25 percent of that output coming from a mix of clean-energy sources including a mix of Hydro, Solar, Wind, Geothermal and Waste Gas generation.
In addition to the plant in Maharashtra, Tata Power isalso working on a 25 Mw solar facility near the city of Mithapur in the Indian state of Gujarat, where it has already signed a power purchase agreement with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd. (GUVNL), under the Gujarat State’s Solar Power Policy 2009.
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