Gujarat Solar One

Solar power in gujarat is a fast developing industry given that the large state is mostly arid gujarat was one of the first states to develop solar generation capacity in india.

Gujarat solar one.

At a time when solar rooftop has not really created the sort of impact many experts felt it could comes news of success in gujarat. Status date february 12 2014. Gujarat solar one csp project was carried out by cargo power and infrastructure ltd. Csp is also known as solar thermal electricity ste.

Concentrated solar power increasing cumulative global capacity more than 11 to just under 5 5 gw in 2018. The csp plant was the first to be built in the state of gujarat and is located in rapar in jutch district of gujarat. Having one of the most favourable solar policies in the country gujarat has already been ahead of most states when it comes to its installed solar capacity. Looking at the availability of land in the park we can go for further capacity addition of 150 mw.

The geographical location of the state exposes it to almost 300 sunny days in a year with solar radiation of 5 6 6 0 kwh m 2 day. The state among the top 3 industrialised states in the country with conditions considered ideal for rooftop solar has seen a strong response to its latest rooftop solar policy push. A total of about 1100 mw were commissioned as of march 2016 with individual solar parks ranging from hundreds of kw to 40 mw capacity. With lauren engineers constructors as epc contractor.

Gujarat one of the leading solar energy rich states of india recently released its new industrial policy. The state government of gujarat has issued amendments to its wasteland allotment policy for wind solar and hybrid wind and solar power projects. This page provides information on gujarat solar one a concentrating solar power csp project with data organized by background participants and power plant configuration. The project was the first in india to use thermal energy storage providing energy from.

Gujarat is one of the most solar energy rich states in india. In the policy the state has announced some major incentives for msmes looking to solar. According to the amendments the renewable power project developers selected by the solar energy corporation of india seci will have to commit to install of 50 of the total generation capacity. Gacl gujarat alkalies and chemicals limited is setting up 30 mw solar pv plant and gsfc gujarat state fertilizers and chemicals is in the process of setting up 10 mw project.