Haryana Government has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with six independent Power Producers for setting up of six biomass power projects of 63 MW commutative capacity with an investment of about Rs284 crore.
Out of these one project of 9.9 MW has already been commissioned at village Kharkhra in district Mohindragarh at a cost of Rs62 crore and has started power generation.
A spokesman of Renewable Energy department said that the commutative installed capacity of Renewable Energy Power Projects in the State is 186.79 MW out of which capacity addition of 117.19 MW has been added from March 2005 to August 2013. Apart from this, four small Hydro Projects of 10.8 MW capacity have been commissioned in the State.
The spokesman said that Under Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, eight projects of 7.8 MW capacity have been commissioned
in the State which includes seven projects of one MW each. He said that the State Government has initiated a number of steps to encourage the use of solar power in the State.