Published: 15th Mar, 2021
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The country’s biggest floating solar power plant to date being developed at Ramagundam in Peddapalli district of Telangana is set to be commissioned in next few months.
About the Solar plant
- Renewable energy plant: It is the biggest solar power plant developed in India to date.
- Capacity: It is a 100-megawatt plant which is the biggest in terms of generation capacity.
- Developing entity: It would be one of the renewable (solar) energy plants being developed by NTPC with an installed capacity of 447MW in the Southern Region.
- FGDs construction: Flu gas de-sulphurization (FGD) capacity will be installed on the developing solar plants to abide by the environmental protection norms.
- Significance:
- No need for land acquisition
- Low-cost energy production
- Promotion of renewable energy resources
Some other to be commissioned power plants
- The renewable energy plants that are likely to be commissioned in the next three months are:
- 25MW floating solar plant at Simhadri thermal power plant near Visakhapatnam
- 92MW floating solar plant at Kayamkulam in Kerala
- 100MW plant at Ramagundam.
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Flue-gas desulfurization (FGD)
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