Andhra Pradesh gets a new floating solar power plant on Meghadri Gedda reservoir
A floating solar power plant was Friday commissioned at Meghadri Gedda reservoir in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC).
G Lakshmisha, Commissioner of GVMC, told news agency ANI the power plant can produce 4.2 million units of power each year, and has been started on 12 acres of area. “Besides that, we’re also saving 54,000 tonnes of coal per year and reducing emissions by 3,022 tonnes per year,” he added.
The commissioning comes weeks after India’s largest floating solar plant became operational at Ramagundam in Telangana’s Peddapalli district. The 100-megawatt (MW) floating solar power photovoltaic project was commissioned by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the country’s foremost public-sector power generator.
