Punjab gets world's largest rooftop solar plant
World’s largest Single Rooftop Solar Power Plant with capacity of11.5 MegaWatt (MW) was inaugurated at Dera Baba Jaimal Singhat Beas, in Amritsar, Punjab.
• It was inaugurated by Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal on 18 May 2016.
• This is the largest Solar Power Plant spread over 82 acres of rooftop in single campus on multiple roofs with installed capacity of 19.5 MW.
• The plant has been set up with the cost of 139 crore rupees.
• The project will generate clean and green energy sufficient to power approximately 8000 homes.
• This solar power project at Dera Beas will help in abating about 4lakh tonnes of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in next 25 years
• This is equivalent to plant nearly 2 lakh trees.
• Considering the fact that pollution level and global temperature has gone up like anything, any such initiative is quite commendable.