Madhya Pradesh to scale up solar power capacity to 50K KW this year
BHOPAL: The state has an ambitious objective cut out for itself. It is working on a plan to install rooftop solar power plants of 50,000 kilowatt capacity this year. With this, it aims at reducing 86,500 tons of carbon emissions in the environment. Official sources say with solar power plants of 10,000 KW capacity have been installed on buildings across the state and another 10,000 KW are near completion. The rooftop solar plants are not only good for environment, but help save money, sources said.
The renewable power generation capacity of state has gone up by more than 20 times in past six years. With setting up of world’s largest solar park of 750 MW capacity in Rewa district, which is likely to start production by end of 2018, the solar power capacity of the state will get doubled in next one and a half years.
Source:TOI
