{"id":20923,"date":"2015-06-25T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T11:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=20923"},"modified":"2015-06-25T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T11:39:33","slug":"first-solar-starts-commercial-operation-of-20-mw-solar-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/first-solar-starts-commercial-operation-of-20-mw-solar-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"First Solar starts commercial operation of 20 mw solar plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-headquartered solar power developer First Solar today said that it started commercial operation of its 20 MW solar plant in Telangana.<\/p>\n<p>The 20 MW PV project &#8220;is part of a larger 200 MW projects portfolio which is wholly-owned by First Solar and is in various stages of construction in India,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The project is contracted under a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to sell power to the Southern Power Distribution Corporation of Telangana at a tariff of Rs 6.49\/kwhr, it added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The project will not only increase India&#8217;s clean energy output, but also supports the penetration of solar energy in the generation mix in the country,&#8221; First Solar India Country Head Sujoy Ghosh said.<\/p>\n<p>First Solar Inc had earlier said it plans to build 45 megawatt capacity of solar power generation in Telangana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-headquartered solar power developer First Solar today said that it started commercial operation of its 20 MW solar plant in Telangana. The 20 MW PV project &#8220;is part of a larger 200 MW projects portfolio which is wholly-owned by First Solar and is in various stages of construction in India,&#8221; the company said in a statement. The project is contracted under a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to sell power to the Southern Power Distribution Corporation of Telangana at a tariff of Rs 6.49\/kwhr, it added. &#8220;The project will not only increase India&#8217;s clean energy output, but also supports the [&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-20923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20923","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=20923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}