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Mr Rajive Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Shipping, inaugurated the 353.5 KWP grid-connected rooftop solar power plant at Maritime Training Institute, Powai, of The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), on a total rooftop area of 5,650 sq. m, in the presence of Capt. Anoop Kumar Sharma, CMD SCI, Capt. B. B. Sinha, Director (P&A), Mrs H. K. Joshi, Director (Finance), Capt. Philip Mathews, Principal MTI, and others.
The payback period for EPC cost and for both EPC and O&M will be around 5 years and 7 years, respectively. The life of the solar plant is expected to be around 20 years.
The power generated from the plant will be enough to cater to the need of the sanctioned load of the entire premises. SCI is the first organisation in Maharashtra to go for “Net Metering” with Reliance Energy, after the state government ratified net metering in the state. Thus, the excess power generated will be exported/fed back to the grid.
SCI has a vision to enhance solar power generation up to 1 megawatt and thereby reduce its carbon footprint and contribute to the nation’s goal of attainting 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022.
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