Haryana plans to set up (MW scale) solar energy based power project

Haryana plans to set up solar energy based power project

23 Jan, 2008, 1612 hrs IST, PTI

CHANDIGARH: Haryana has a plan to set up solar energy based power projects in Mega watt (MW) scale in the State and power produced from these projects will be fed to the state grid for which Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA) has submitted an application with the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission for fixation of tariff under Section-3 of Electricity Act-2003.

Directory Haryana Renewable Energy Department, Sumita Misra said today that Haryana has about 320 clear sunny day in a year and the solar insolation level in the State was in the range of 5.5 KWH to 6.5 KWH per sq meter of area.

"This offered a great potential for using solar energy for various thermal and electrical energy applications but the potential available from solar energy was yet to be harnessed in MW scale in t he country", she said, according to an official release here.

Misra said that there were many factors affecting the implementation of large scale utilization of solar photovoltaic or thermal technologies.

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