Maxeon Solar Technologies announced the commercial operation of the 192-megawatt (MW) Bikaner 1 Solar Farm, a utility-scale power plant in Rajasthan, India.
This solar power plant utilizes a total of nearly 398,000 Performance 3 UPP solar panels from Maxeon Solar Technologies. The Bikaner 1 project is the largest Indian power plant project to utilize Maxeon’s Performance line panels.
Maxeon’s Performance line panels are the most deployed shingled-cell panels in the solar industry, and the Performance 3 UPP panels are engineered to meet the needs of large-scale power plants. With a rated efficiency of up to 20.9 percent, Performance 3 panels optimize power density and lower system cost.
Jeff Waters, CEO of Maxeon Solar Technologies, said: “This is the largest utility-scale project that we have supplied in India, and it is yet another example of how our utility scale customers trust Maxeon for their solar power plants.”
The Bikaner 1 power plant is forecast to produce approximately 800, 000 MWh per year and will remove 650,000MT of carbon emissions every year.
Shivanand Nimbargi, MD & CEO of Ayana Renewable Power, said: “Bikaner 1 is an important milestone that will allow us to meet the objective of a faster transition to low carbon power generation and contributing towards the development of local communities in parallel.”