Vizag to soon have one of India’s largest floating solar power plants

Floating solar panels are now gaining a lot of popularity across the world. Their advanced technology is helping the world look at renewable energy in a new light. These solar panels can be deployed in cities to save land space and utilise water bodies such as lakes or reservoirs which they can shade the water thus reducing evaporation. Vizag will soon be witnessing a floating solar power plant in Mudasarlova reservoir which will be an adjunct of the Vizag smart city projects of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC).

The reservoir, located in Hanumanthawaka which is bestowing around 1 million gallons of water per day, will also be a bedrock for the floating power plant. The GVMC has started the construction of a 2MW solar farm which will be floating around in the waters. “This initiative, which is a part of the smart city projects of GVMC, will be one of the largest floating solar plants in the country, once the project is completed,” GVMC commissioner, M Hari Narayanan, told TOI.

The solar panels will be mounted on top of the floaters which will hover on the water. They are deemed to have higher efficiency over the ground installed panels due to the cooler temperature of the water, thus providing better performance.

The sources say that this project stands along with other projects to render 10MW of solar power.

With all such latest feeds, we will soon be witnessing our city turning into a Smart city energised by solar power.