The Tamil Nadu government has identified two companies for setting up two 5 Mw capacity solar photovoltaic power generation units in the state. The units are expected to be commissioned by December 2009.
Moser Baer is one of the companies that will set up a solar power unit in Sivaganga district. Sivaganga is the constituency of finance minister P Chidambaram. The name of the other company has not been disclosed.
Addressing a one-day conference on ‘Energy and Environment meet’ organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), Arcot N Veeraswamy, state electricity minister, said Tamil Nadu a leader in developing renewable energy, especially wind energy, was also now focusing on solar power.
In may be recalled that three companies had submitted bids to set up solar photo voltaic power generation projects in the state in response to the tender called by the Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (Teda) under a programme by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).
To promote solar power generation in the country, MNRE had recently announced a generation-based incentive of Rs 12 a killo watt hour for solar photovoltaic projects and Rs 10 a killo watt hour for solar thermal power generation projects.
