Northeast India gets its first solar power plant

• 9 years ago (2015-02-05)
• Junior Isles

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India’s North-Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) has put forward plans for the construction of a 5 MW solar power plant at Monarchak in Tripura, which will be the first in northeastern India.

NEEPCO general manager, S.R. Biswas, stated that power generation “started on Wednesday and the full [5 MW] commercial generation would start within a month after completing some technicalities”.

The Monarchak power plant project had begun during the National Democratic Alliance government in March 2002, while building permission was granted by the Tripura government in 2003.

This is the beginning of a wider process where NEEPCO will develop a 50 MW solar in Madhya Pradesh and a 2 MW plant in Lanka in Nagaon district of Assam.

Biswas said that “as per the government policy, NEEPCO has initiated the process to set up more and more solar, non-conventional and renewable power plants in various parts of the country”.