View of a 2 MW solar power plant at Naval Station Karanja along with dignitaries involved in the project, during its inauguration, at Uran in Navi Mumbai.
The official said that built at an estimated cost of ₹ 14 crore, the plant would meet about 30% of the power requirement of the naval station and save ₹ 30 lakh per month.
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The Indian Navy's Western Naval Command's first 2-megawatt capacity solar power plant was inaugurated at a naval station in Navi Mumbai, an official said on Tuesday.
The defense spokesman said that the plant was inaugurated by Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar, Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command.
He said the solar plant at Indian Naval Station Karanja in Uran consists of indigenously developed solar panels, tracking tables and inverters.
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The official said the plant is grid interconnected using state-of-the-art single axis sun-tracking technology with computerized monitoring and control.
He said that this is an important step used by the Indian Navy to use solar energy and to meet the power supply requirement of the Naval Station.
Officially built at a cost of ₹ 14 crore, the plant will meet 20 to 30% of the power requirement of the naval station and save ₹ 30 lakh per month.
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