Damodar Valley Corporation plans to increase its renewable energy capacity through floating solar and pumped storage projects.
The thermal and hydroelectric power PSU plans to install floating solar projects of capacity 50MW each at all the four locations of its dams — Tilaya, Konar, and Maithon in Jharkhand, and Panchet which is partly in Bengal and partly in Jharkhand.
DVC member secretary Prabir Kumar Mukhopadhyay said the corporation, which achieved its highest thermal power generation in 2018-19 (36,677 million units), has installed a pilot floating solar project in October last year at a reservoir inside its thermal plant at Mejia in the Bankura district of Bengal.
