Maharashtra I Solar Power Plant

The Maharashtra I solar park southwest of Chatgaon Village in the Beed district of Maharashtra is a 67.2 megawatt (MWDC) photovoltaic power station, which has been commissioned in August 2017. It covers an area of 306 acres (124 hectares) and supplies about 126,000 people with energy. Part of the plant uses a seasonal tracking system with the remaining using a horizontal single axis tracking system, using polycrystalline solar PV technology. The produced electricity is taken by Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited and Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).[1] The solar park is the SPV Talettutayi Solar Projects Four Private Limited and was constructed using 207,015 solar modules. Developer of the power plant is Solar Arise India Projects Limited, which the shareholders are Thomas Lloyd Group, the European Initiative on Clean, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change related to Development SICAV SIF in relation to Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (“GEEREF”), advised by the European Investment Bank Group, Kotak Mahindra managed Core Infrastructure India Fund (“CIIF”) and the founding management team Anil Nayar, James Abraham and Tanya Singhal.[2][3] Solar Arise currently owns and operates 130 MW of grid-connected solar power projects in India.[4]

Maharashtra I
CountryIndia
LocationChatgaon, Beed District, Maharashtra
Coordinates18°57′42″N 76°12′46″E
StatusOperational
Commission date1 August 2017 (2017-08-01)
Owner(s)Talettutayi Solar Projects Four Private Limited
Collectors207,015
Total collector area306 acres
Power generation
Nameplate capacity67.2 MWDC
Maharashtra I
Location of Power Plant Maharashtra I in the State of Maharashtra

India has a target of developing 22,000 MW (75 billion Btu/h) of solar power plants and an additional 8,000 MW (27 billion Btu/h) is expected in local generation, bringing the total to 30,000 MW (100 billion Btu/h) by 2022, which was later increased to 100,000 megawatts by the Narendra Modi government in the 2015 Union budget of India[5]

References
  1. Thomas Lloyd Group: Maharashtra I
  2. ThomasLloyd takes stake in SolarArise Foreign Investors on India, issue of 2018, october, 10. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  3. Business: Kotak Mahindra, EIB to Invest in India’s SolarArise, Bloomberg, issue of 2014, october, 9. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  4. Crunchbase: SolarArise. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  5. "Revision of cumulative targets under National Solar Mission from 20,000 MW by 2021–22 to 1,00,000 MW". pib.nic.in. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
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