Rishikesh-19.02.2021: Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi dedicated the 50 MW Kasaragod Solar Power Project to the Nation through Video Conference on 19th February 2021 the first Solar Power Project implemented by THDC India Limited (THDCIL), a Mini Ratna Power PSU of Govt. of India. Hon’ble Governor of Kerala, Sh. Arif Mohammad Khan; Hon’ble Chief Minister of Kerala, Sh. Pinarayi Vijayan; Hon’ble Minister of State (IC) (Power and New Renewable energy) Minister of State (Skilled Development Entrepreneurship), Govt. of India, Sh. R.K. Singh; Hon’ble Union Minister for Housing Urban Affairs(I/C), Civil Aviation(I/C), Govt. of India, Sh. Hardeep Singh Puri; Hon’ble Minister for Electricity, Govt. of Kerela; Sh. M.M Mani, Hon’ble, MP (Lok Sabha) Sh. Sashi Tharoor and Sh. Alok Kumar, Secretary(Power), GoIattended the ceremony joining through video conference. Hon’ble, MLA, Manjeshwaram, Sh. M.CKamaruddin and attended the ceremony from the project site. . Sh. D. V. Singh; CMD THDCIL, Sh. J. Behera; Director (Finance), THDCIL Sh. R. K. Vishnoi Director (Technical), THDCIL Sh. Augustin Thomas, CEO, of RPCKL, and other dignitaries attended the dedication ceremony from the project location at Kasaragod, Kerala. It is to mention that while most of the infrastructure projects world over got severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, this project was commissioned on 31.12.2020 one month before the schedule, despite all hurdles. With the development of its first 50 MW Solar Photo Voltaic PV power project in Kasaragod Solar Park, THDC is committed to contributing to the government’s solar power agenda in Kerala which has a total capacity of 105 MW. The project has been developed on 250 acres of land provided by Kerala State Electricity Board Ltd which is spread across Paivalike, Meenja and Chippar villages of District Kasaragod, Kerala, and built with the central government’s investment of around Rs. 280 cr. The capacity utilization factor of the project was upgraded to 23 percent from the initial 19 percent by innovative design where more PV panels were installed with higher watt capacity, thus increasing the DC capacity by 30 percent. The Project has 165149 multi-crystalline solar PV modules that are powering the generation of 100.56 Million units of clean energy to meet the power requirements exclusively for the state of Kerala at a tariff of Rs 3.10 per kWh (unit) for which a Power Sale Agreement has already been signed between THDC and KSEB. THDCIL is one of India’s leading power-generating enterprises already in the field of Power Generation having an aggregate operating Generation Capacity of 1587 MW in the field of Hydro, Wind which has now successfully forayed into solar power projects with a vision of becoming a leading Solar Power Developer of India.
