Floating Solar

RUMSL Tenders for 600 MW Omkareshwar Floating Project

After a lot of discussions and waiting, the 600 MW Omkareshwar reservoir floating solar plans are moving again. The Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited (RUMSL) has started the process by inviting bids to develop the grid connected ‘park’, which would easily be the largest of its kind in India. Till recently, the plant was in […]

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Singareni Collieries Tenders for PMC For 250 MW Floating Solar Project

Telangana-based Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), a JV between the Government of India and the Government of Telangana, has issued a tender calling for Project Management Consultancy for a 250 MWp (DC) floating solar at Lower Manair Dam (LMD), Karimnagar. For Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), which recently inaugurated 37 MW of solar plants at […]

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REI 2021 | Conversation with Shravil Aggarwal, Director at Floatex Solar Pvt. Ltd.

Floatex Solar, the partnership between Prabh Dayal Om Parkash Group (PDOP) and Purshottam Profiles Pvt. LTD, to manufacture and develop Floating Solar has met with some early and promising success in India. The firm has been involved as the EPC contractor on some of the earliest, and biggest floating solar projects in India. With the […]

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Sector 39 Waterworks in Chandigarh to Soon Welcome Solar Panels

The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh will soon get its first solar power plant at the Sector 39 waterworks. The floating solar power panels are expected to generate electricity worth ₹1.38 crore annually. The Chandigarh Renewable Energy and Science and Technology Promotion Society (CREST) will execute the project. CREST is the agency for the implementation of various […]

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25 MW Floating Solar Plant Commissioned by NTPC in Andhra Pradesh

The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Ltd has commissioned the largest floating solar PV project of 25MW on the reservoir of the Simhadri thermal station in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. This is the first solar project to be set up under the Flexibilisation Scheme, which was notified by the Government of India in 2018. The solar […]

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Floating Solar On A Growth Path

In Solar’s rise to pre-eminence from a fringe renewable energy option just a decade back, it’s time to consider the rise of floating solar (also called floatovoltaics in many cases). To think that it did not even exist at any scale till 2013. The earliest patent on floating solar was taken out only in 2008. […]

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Ciel & Terre Installs India’s Largest Floating Solar Plant in Tamil Nadu

Ciel & Terre has successfully completed the engineering, float supply, supervision of a 14.7 MW floating solar plant for SPIC in Tamil Nadu Ciel & Terre India, a subsidiary of Ciel & Terre International, a global leader in floating solar, has successfully completed the plant engineering, float supply, supervision of the 14.7 MWp floating solar […]

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10th Extension for SECI’s 15 MW Floating Solar Tender in Himachal

SECI has extended the bid submission deadline for its tender for setting up 15 MW floating solar plant at the Nangal Pond in Himachal Pradesh The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has now, for the tenth time, extended the bid submission deadline for its tender for the selection of a project developer for setting […]

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