Tata Power Solar commissions 1.25 MW plants at TN varsity

Tata Power Solar today said it has commissioned 1.25 MW rooftop projects at SASTRA University's Thanjavur and Kumbakonam campuses in Tamil Nadu.
SASTRA has inked a pact with Tata Power Trading Company (TPTCL) under which the latter will sell electricity generated from the facilities to the university for 15 years, the private solar firm said in a release here.
Commissioned as a part of the university's green energy efforts, the plants are likely to offset 30 per cent of its total power consumption.
These plants will generate nearly 20 lakh units of power annually and reduce more than 1,600 tonne of carbon dioxide emission, the company said.

Set up on 11 buildings across the two campuses, these plants come with in-built grid interactive string inverters to achieve efficiency up to 98 per cent and reduce losses.
To further minimise transmission and distribution losses, power generated by each rooftop plant will be used by the same building.