India’s Second-Largest Grid-Connected Rooftop Solar Plant Commissioned In UP

India’s government-owned solar corporation of India (SECI) declared it has commissioned the USA’s second-largest rooftop solar PV plant at GAIL’s Petrochemical complex at Pata in Uttar Pradesh. The 5.76 Mega Watt (MWp) huge solar plant could generate about 7,930,000 units of energy per annum for GAIL’s captive use. The plant is anticipated to lessen approximately 6,000 tons per annum of Carbon Dioxide emission and make contributions in the direction of India’s desires underneath COP 21 commitment.

“GAIL as a marketer of benign fuel is thrilled to integrate captive solar PV towards achieving lower carbon footprint at our major installation,” BC Tripathi, Chairman and Managing Director of GAIL said.

The award for Turnkey execution of the undertaking, together with five years of Operation and renovation, turned into placed on Thermax Limited, selected through an open aggressive bidding method via SECI.

“SECI being the PMC for this project is committed to providing its best services towards Designing, Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning of the project including its quality assurance to make it India’s best Rooftop Installation,” Jatinder Nath Swain, Managing Director at SECI said. SECI had additionally these days released bids for two GigaWatt of ISTS-related Wind power and ISTS-connected sun energy each. The employer expects to drift such tenders extra in the remaining months of the economic yr 2018-2019, it stated in a release.