India’s biggest metro rail system, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will soon switch to using green power.
Rewa Solar Park in Madhya Pradesh is all set to begin supplying electricity to DMRC. This news comes in less than a year and a half with the 750 MW project making waves in the market. The solar project promises to sell electric power at than INR 3 (4 US cents) per unit. The Rewa project will in due course meet 90% of the power requisite of the Delhi Metro.
The park has started generating power from July onwards. This will be purchased by DMRC for running the metros in the city.
As per the current capacity of solar plant, Rewa is producing 10MW of electricity. It is likely that DMRC, two months down the line will start buying green power at INR 2.97 per unit.
DMRC is one of the top customers for the project. The other major customer is the state of Madhya Pradesh through the MP Power Management Co. Ltd.
Madhya Pradesh looking at the future viability green power consumption aims to establish slew of solar parks. These will have installed capacity of an additional 1.5 GW. Another institutional customer, the Indian Railways is expected to be one of its top clients.
In order to ensure uninterrupted power supply to DMRC, optimum scheduling has been done on days without optimum sun. In this, the solar plant will supply energy to DMRC on a privileged basis to facilitate meeting its supply requirement and then cater to state’s utility.
The 750MW solar project is among the world’s largest single-site solar park. It will help in savings of INR 46 billion for Madhya Pradesh’s power utilities in the next 25 years. For DMRC it will help the metro rail corporation INR 14 billion.
Reference- TOI, MetroNews, DMRC PR