NTPC has increased investment in renewable energy in recent years and aims to reach more than 60 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2032.
On Tuesday, solar tracker supplier Nextracker declared it had signed a contract with Amara Raja Power Systems Selects to supply solar trackers for the government’s NTPC Ltd project. Nokh Solar with a capacity of 306 MW.
Amara Raja is working on this 306 megawatt (MWp) peak capacity project as a utility-scale aboveground power plant spread across 1,850 hectares (equivalent to 3,500 adjoining football fields) in Rajasthan.
The announcement follows a growing trend in India to deploy solar trackers combined with bifacial module technology due to declining module prices and improved tracker design efficiency.
“Nextracker’s optimised bifacial tracker design has been proven to increase energy yield, as validated by third-party test laboratories in this seminal bifacial and solar tracker white paper,” the company said.
‘’We are delighted to collaborate with Nextracker, the global leader in solar tracker technology, on the landmark Nokh solar project,‘’ said Dwarakanadha Reddy, Business Head Projects Division, Amara Raja Power Systems.
“We are proud to offer this advanced technology to NTPC, and Nextracker solar trackers are the right local partner to help us achieve lower Levelized cost of energy (LCOE) over the lifetime of the plant due to its bifacial optimized design,” he added.
‘’We are grateful for this opportunity to partner with Amara Raja and India’s largest power public sector utility, NTPC Ltd,‘’ said Dan Shugar, Nextracker founder and CEO.
In recent years, NTPC has increased its investment in renewable energy and aims to achieve over 60 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2032, accounting for 50% of total generation capacity. The first batch is expected to be delivered in the first quarter of 2023 and the project is expected to be operational by October 2023.
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