Amara Raja Power Selects Nextracker to Supply Solar Trackers to NTPC’s Plant

NTPC’s Nokh Solar Project, which will soon be one of India’s largest solar parks, will use Nextracker’s award-winning solar trackers. Nextracker is the world’s leading provider of intelligent solar trackers and software solutions. The company recently announced the signing of a master supply agreement (MSA) with Amara Raja Power Systems Limited. This 1,850-hectare project, which is equal to 3,500 consecutive football fields in Rajasthan, is being carried out by Amara Raja and is a ground-mounted utility-scale power plant with a 306-megawatt peak (MWp) capacity.

Andhra Pradesh-based Amara Raja Power Systems is a power project developer and manufacturer of power electronics, electrical transmission and distribution panels supplied in India and to other parts of the world ranging from Africa and Middle East to south East Asia.

Due to declining module prices and improved tracker design efficiencies, the news continues the upward trend for the adoption of solar trackers combined with bifacial module technology in India. In a bifacial and solar tracker white paper, independent test laboratories certify Nextracker’s optimised bifacial tracker design’s ability to boost energy yield.

“In line with the government’s vision to bring more renewables into the energy mix, we are delighted to collaborate with Nextracker, the global leader in solar tracker technology, on the landmark Nokh solar project. We are proud to offer this advanced technology to NTPC, and Nextracker is the right local partner to help us achieve lower levelized cost of energy (LCOE) over the lifetime of the plant due to its bifacial optimized design,” stated Dwarakanadha Reddy, Business Head Projects Division, Amara Raja Power Systems.

“With a gigawatt of our high-performing solar tracker systems operating on 24 projects across India and close to 200 local staff to support design and engineering, local content and manufacturing, sales, and aftermarket services, Nextracker is committed to delivering high-performing systems to our customers and supporting India’s goal to ensure that 50 percent of the country’s energy requirement comes from renewable resources,” said Dan Shugar, Nextracker founder and CEO.

In recent years, NTPC has boosted its investments in renewable energy, and by 2032, it hopes to have over 60 GW of renewable energy capacity or 50% of its total generation capacity. The project is anticipated to be operational by October 2023, with the first exports coming in Q1 of 2023. Rajasthan, one of the states in India, has the most installed renewable energy capacity (19.5 GW), having just surpassed its 14 GW target for 2022 in December 2021.