National, India: Tata Power Solar, India’s largest solar energy company, and Tata Power’s wholly-owned subsidiary has received a ‘Notice of Award’ to build a 50MWp solar PV Plant with 50MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project at Phyang village in Leh, Ladakh. The order value of the project is ÌNR 386 crore. The commercial operation date for this project is set for March 2023.
This will be India’s first co-located largescale BESS solution as well as the first largescale solar PV project in the Union Territory of Ladakh to be set up at a high altitude of 3,600 metres above sea level.
With the addition of this project, the order pipeline of Tata Power Solar now stands at approximately 4GWp with approximate order value of INR 12,414 crore.
The scope of work includes design, engineering, supply and procurement, construction of solar photovoltaic grid connected power plant project and BESS on a turnkey basis, along with 10 years of operations and maintenance services.
Speaking on the achievement, Dr Praveer Sinha, CEO and MD, Tata Power, said, “Tata Power has always been at the forefront of generating renewable energy coupled with innovative solutions. This project is a testament of our contribution towards developing an advanced ecosystem for faster adoption of clean energy across the nation.”
Tata Power Solar comes with a successful background of executing large projects, to name a few, 150MW Ayana at Ananthapur, 50MW project at Kasaragod in Kerala, 56MW Greenko, 30MWp project in Lapanga in Odisha, 105MWp floating solar plant at Kayamkulam in Kerala (under implementation). It has also won an auction conducted by Gujarat for 400MW of projects to be built at Dholera Solar Park.
