Punjab Government is all set to dedicate single location 31.5 MW largest solar power plant of the State, at Mirpur Kalan in Mansa district, on September 29. State Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal would inaugurate the plant.
“One of the biggest investment in the solar sector in Punjab, this plant has been set up with the investment of `200 crore,” said the State New
and Renewable Energy Minister Bikram Singh Majithia on Monday.
“The State is steadily moving on the path of becoming leading ‘solar power State’ of the country,” he said, adding this is the “largest power plant” located at single location in the state established at 173 acres of land.
The plant has been installed by Bhanu Energy Infrastructure and Power limited and Bhanu Energy Industrial Development limited which is a parent company-Hindustan Power Project Private limited.
Majithia said Punjab has been awarded with eight awards by the Centre as best performing state in the various sectors of New and Renewable Energy.
“Punjab has the honour of setting single largest solar rooftop power plant at Dera Baba Jaimal Singh Beas in Amritsar district,” he said.
Majithia said that in a short span of three-four years of time with the investment of `8,000 crores, solar power generation has touched 1,080 MW from just nine MW with the growth rate of more than 100 per cent in the state.