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Damodar Valley Plans 1.7 GW Floating Solar Projects in WB, Jharkhand

State-owned hydel and thermal power generator Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) announced that it would now focus solely on solar projects to add capacity.

 

According to a PTI report, DVC has already proposed 1,776 MW of floating solar projects in four of its dams in West Bengal and Jharkhand. These two states jointly own the corporation along with the Union government.

 

According to DVC member secretary, Prabir Kumar Mukhopadhyay, the company would execute the floating solar projects in the four dams of Maithon, Tilaya, Konar, and Panchet. It would complete these projects in three phases, and the first will be a 50 MW project.

 

DVC had already floated the tender for a 50 MW solar project at Panchet (Jharkhand). Mukhopadhyay said that the company has zeroed in on the lowest bidder for the Panchet project, and DVC would finalize the work order in early October 2020.

 

The feasibility study of the solar projects, which are likely to utilize about 15% of their capacities, was carried out by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).

 

Mukhopadhyay said DVC has large tracts of land, and in the last two years, it retired old thermal capacities to the tune of 840 MW at Bokaro, Chandrapura, and Durgapur. Currently, DVC has around 7,000 MW of thermal power capacity.

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