Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company, has continuously strived to uplift the lives of its communities living -around its plant and project locations. In line with this philosophy, Industrial Energy Limited (IEL), a joint venture of Tata Power and Tata Steel, inaugurated Solar Micro Grid project in Baliapal village, Kalinganagar. The project will benefit 255 persons in Baliapal village with uninterrupted power.
The village was facing frequent power cuts that hampered studies of students. It also affected ladies who were unable to do day to day house work due to power cuts mainly in evening hours. A micro grid is particularly a portion of the power distribution system that comprises of distributed generation, energy storage and loads. Micro grids are robust in controlling the local voltage and frequency, and protecting the network and equipment connected to the micro grid. This is first of its kind project in Odisha where the community has contributed 10% of the total project cost and balance 90% is given by IEL.
Commenting on the initiative, Mr. Vijayant Ranjan, CEO-IEL and Chief Kalinganagar station, said, “A major part of rural India are still deprived of electricity, which is crucial for meeting socio-economic goals and overall human development. This micro grid project undertaken by Tata Power will ensure reliable power for the villagers and contribute towards the government’s objective of rural electrification. Renewable energy sources and technologies have the potential to provide solutions to longstanding energy problems being faced by villages in India. We would like to thank the villagers from Baliapal for extending and support and making this project a success”.
The project will be managed by the Village Development Committee (VDC), consisting of 20 Persons, including women representatives. The process of setting up rural micro grid project consist of various stages which includes identification of village, consent from villagers for 10 % contribution, Village Development Committee (VDC) formation and lastly installing the project.
About Tata Power:
Tata Power is India’s largest integrated power company with a growing international presence. The Company together with its subsidiaries and jointly controlled entities has an installed gross generation capacity of 10511 MW and a presence in all the segments of the power sector viz. Fuel Security and Logistics, Generation (thermal, hydro, solar and wind), Transmission, Distribution and Trading. It has successful public-private partnerships in Generation, Transmission and Distribution in India namely “Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited” with Delhi Vidyut Board for distribution in North Delhi, ‘Powerlinks ransmission Ltd.’ with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. for evacuation of Power from Tala hydro plant in Bhutan to Delhi and ‘Maithon Power Ltd.’ with Damodar Valley Corporation for a 1050 MW Mega Power Project at Jharkhand. Tata Power is serving more than 2.6 million distribution consumers in India and has developed the country’s first 4000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra (Gujarat) based on super-critical technology.
It is also one of the largest renewable energy players in India with a clean energy portfolio of 3042 MW. Its international presence includes strategic investments in Indonesia through a 30% stake in the leading coal company PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC), 26% stake in mines at PT Baramulti Suksessarana Tbk (“BSSR”); in Singapore through Trust Energy Resources to securitize coal supply and the shipping of coal for its thermal power generation operations; in South Africa through a joint venture called ‘Cennergi’ to develop projects in sub-Sahara Africa; in Zambia through 50:50 joint venture with ZESCO for 120 MW Hydro which has become operational in 2016; in Georgia through AGL which is a joint venture with Clean Energy, Norway & IFC for development of 185 MW hydro project which is scheduled to be commissioned in 2016; in Australia through investments in enhanced geothermal and clean coal technologies and in Bhutan through a hydro project in partnership with The Royal Government of Bhutan. With its track record of technology leadership, project execution excellence, world class safety processes, customer care and driving green initiatives, Tata Power is poised for a multi-fold growth and committed to ‘lighting up lives’ for generations to come”. Visit us at: www.tatapower.com
Shalini Singh
Head – Corporate Communications
The Tata Power Company Limited
Email: shalinis@tatapower.com
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