{"id":17845,"date":"2015-06-02T11:50:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=17845"},"modified":"2015-06-02T11:50:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:50:56","slug":"azure-power-commissions-10-mw-solar-plant-in-chhattisgarh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/azure-power-commissions-10-mw-solar-plant-in-chhattisgarh\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Power commissions 10 MW solar plant in Chhattisgarh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Azure Power today said that it has commissioned a solar power plant of 10 MW capacity in Durg, Chhattisgarh. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Azure Power has commissioned the first large scale solar plant of 10 MW capacity in Durg, Chhattisgarh,&#8221; the company said in a press release. <\/p>\n<p>According to statement, Azure won this project under the Chhasttisgarh Solar Policy 2012-2017 to supply power to Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company Limited (CPDCL), for 25 years. <\/p>\n<p>With commissioning of this plant, Azure Power aims to contribute to the state government&#8217;s stipulated target of 500 MW to 1000 MW power generation capacity under Chhattisgarh Solar Policy 2012-2017. <\/p>\n<p>The power plant installation in Chhattisgarh is divided into three phases of 10 MW each. <\/p>\n<p>The company said that the 10 MW plant is commissioned three months in advance of the contracted scheduled date. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, it commissioned a 100 MW capacity plant in Rajasthan, the largest solar power project under the National Solar Mission. <\/p>\n<p>Azure Power founder and Chief Executive Officer Inderpreet Wadhwa said: &#8220;We are proud to have successfully brought down the cost of power by almost 64 per cent from Rs 17.91\/KWhr in 2009 to Rs 6.45\/KWhr today for this project.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Azure Power today said that it has commissioned a solar power plant of 10 MW capacity in Durg, Chhattisgarh. &#8220;Azure Power has commissioned the first large scale solar plant of 10 MW capacity in Durg, Chhattisgarh,&#8221; the company said in a press release. According to statement, Azure won this project under the Chhasttisgarh Solar Policy 2012-2017 to supply power to Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company Limited (CPDCL), for 25 years. With commissioning of this plant, Azure Power aims to contribute to the state government&#8217;s stipulated target of 500 MW to 1000 MW power generation capacity under Chhattisgarh Solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}