NEW DELHI: Reliance Power BSE -0.20 % on Tuesday started operations at its 100-megawatt solar energy plant - claimed to be the world's largest concentrated solar power (CSP) project - built at a cost of Rs 2,100 crore in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district.
The project "has been successfully synchronized with the grid and power generation has commenced with this project, Reliance Power's generation capacity has increased to 5,285 megawatt (MW), which includes 5,100 MW of thermal capacity and 185 MW of renewable energy based capacity," the Anil Ambani group company said in a news release. The project is the largest investment undertaken by any private sector entity in CSP technology in India, it added.
The technology used in the project is called compact linear fresnel reflector, which focuses the sun's heat onto a system of tubes through which water flows. The concentrated sunlight boils the water and generates superheated steam which is then used for running a power generator.
Rajasthan Sun Technique Energy Private Ltd, a wholly owned unit of Reliance Power, was awarded the project in December 2010, after an international competitive bidding conducted by state-run NTPC's unit NTPCBSE BSE-0.48 % Vidyut Vyapar Nigam under the government's Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission.
Source:Economic Times.
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