SunEdison, the solar energy service providers, announced a new project of installing 159 KW of solar PV micro-grids in six remote Indian villages.
These projects will supply power to around 4,875 homes in total.
In collaboration with Indian government’s Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) and the Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam, SunEdison will build, operate and transfer the facilities to the public in five years.
Pashupathy Gopalan, president, SunEdison Asia Pacific, Middle East and South Africa, said, “Solar is the most practical solution in Indian remote areas and building micro-grids allows for scalability with the growing need.”
The project is a part of SunEdison Eradication of Darkness (SEED) initiative, expected to make a social and environmental impact. A collaborative approach, where private enterprises and government sector, work together ensures the solar development in the region, added Gopalan.
Construction of the micro-grids will begin in September 2014 and commissioning will be completed by December 2014. The project will be completed under the REC’s decentralized distributed generation scheme.
This scheme enables remote communities to generate sufficient clean energy for development needs from small, off-grid systems located in their areas.
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