Siemens Gamesa Commissions First Wind Solar Hybrid Project

Siemens Gamesa has executed India’s first pilot renewable energy hybrid project at Bijapur District in Karnataka for NTPC.

The Wind Solar Hybrid project consists of an SG 2.0-114 wind turbine in hybrid with 1.375 MW High Efficiency HiT solar panels. This is a smart grid based renewable energy’s (SGRE’s) first hybrid project for the thermal power giant.

Siemens Gamesa handled the entire infrastructure needed to operate the project together with the supply, erection and commissioning of one unit of SG 2.0-114 wind turbine, and provided complete solar turnkey EPC solution that included engineering & design of the solar farm, supply of Gamesa Electric inverter, erection and commissioning of the 1.375 MW photovoltaic solar farm in hybrid with the wind turbine.

Present in India since 2009, the accumulated base installed by Siemens Gamesa recently topped the 5-GW mark. The company has two blade factories in Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, and Halol in Gujarat, a nacelle factory in Mamandur near Chennai in Tamil Nadu and a repair centre in Red Hills, Chennai in Tamil Nadu.

Reference- The Hindu, TOI, NTPC PR