NTPC announces commencement of commercial operations of third phase

Hyderabad: The NTPC has announced the commencement of commercial operations of the third phase with capacity of 42.5 MW of the 100 MW Ramagundam floating solar PV project at Ramagundam from Thursday. With this, the total capacity of 80 MW was under commercial operation. The first and second phase with capacity of 17.5 MW and […]

Hyderabad: The NTPC has announced the commencement of commercial operations of the third phase with capacity of 42.5 MW of the 100 MW Ramagundam floating solar PV project at Ramagundam from Thursday.

With this, the total capacity of 80 MW was under commercial operation. The first and second phase with capacity of 17.5 MW and 20 MW was declared commercial operational on October 28 and December 22 2021 respectively.

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On achieving the milestone, Regional Executive Director (South) Naresh Anand appreciated Team Ramagundam and reiterated NTPC’s commitment to renewable energy. Actualizing NTPC’s target of 60 GW of RE capacity by 2032, the southern region was taking concerted efforts.

Besides Ramagundam, NTPC-Simhadri (Andhra Pradesh) has already installed 25 MW floating solar while work was in full swing at NTPC-Kayamkulam in Kerala to install 92 MW floating solar in near future, Anand added.

The largest in the segment in the country, the 100-MW floating solar project at Ramagundam is spread over 450 acres of its reservoir with financial implication of Rs.423 crore. Divided into 40 blocks, each has 2.5 MW with each block consists of one floating platform and an array of 11,200 solar modules.

The floating platform consists of one inverter, transformer, and a HT breaker. The solar modules are placed on floaters manufactured with HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) material.

The entire floating system is being anchored through special HMPE rope to the dead weights placed in the balancing reservoir bed. The power is being evacuated up to the existing switch yard through 33KV underground cables.

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