The Hindu Business Line : BHEL to set up solar power plants in Sunderbans

THE Electronics Division of Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has won a contract to set up five stand-alone solar power plants in the Islands of Sunderbans, West Bengal.

The Rs 15-crore contract is a repeat order from the West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA), which successfully commissioned the State's first largest stand-alone solar power plant in Mousuni Island recently.

BHEL's scope in the contract includes design, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of two stand-alone solar power plants of 110 kWp each and three stand-alone solar power plants of 55 kWp each, with associated LT overhead distribution lines in five islands under the Sunderbans area of West Bengal.

Besides, the company will operate and maintain the plants for 10 years on a turnkey basis. All the five power plants are expected to be commissioned during the next 12 months.

Each plant will be independently catering to the power requirements of the islands. Besides providing power to individual houses, street lights, school buildings etc., pure drinking water pumping system is included as an inbuilt system of the project.

With a view to ensure reliable, quality power supply to the islanders, each plant will be equipped with high efficiency battery banks, inverters and electronic control systems.

The concept of pre-paid metering system to regularise power consumption and revenue collection is being introduced which is superior to the systems available in urban areas utilising conventional power plants.

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