Investment: Rs 82 Crore (2012) to Rs. 10,000 Crore
Employment Potential: 12,500
World’s largest single rooftop stretch of 42 acre solar power plant of 11.5 Mw capacity was installed in India
Inauguration by: New & Renewable Energy Resources Minister of Punjab Bikram Singh Majithia
Project at: Beas in Punjab
Second biggest Installed Project:
Mandalay Bay Resort Convention Centre, Las Vegas in the United States is next biggest solar photovoltic power station
- Capacity: Â 6.4 megawatts (Mw)
- Contractors for the project were Indian Giants Tata Power and Larsen and Toubro
Additional Projects Unveiled:
- Seven rooftop solar power plants of 8MW capacity in Beas Dera campus
- Highest single campus generating solar power of 19.5 Mw at multiple rooftops in the country
Power Generation in Punjab:
- 470 MW of solar power and with projects of 500 MW in the pipeline
- State is having capacity to generate solar power of 1,000 MW by the end of FY 2016-17
Minister Speech
- Installation would generate clean and green energy sufficient to power approximately 8,000 domestic homes
- Government has fixed a target of 40,000 MW power generations from different resources of renewable energy by 2022
- Role model to promote other states to repeat such large rooftops on the building/sheds
- Punjab would achieve a target of 2552 MW of renewable energy generation by 2022
About Punjab:
- Capital : Chandigarh
- Governor : Kaptan Singh Solanki
- Chief Minister : Parkash Singh Badal
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