Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) Chairman and Managing Director N Sridhar here on Friday said that proposals pertaining to setting up of 350 MW floating solar power plant on the waters of Lower Manair Dam in Karimnagar, were submitted to the State government.
The SCCL appointed an agency for conducting a feasibility study for establishing the plant before preparing a detailed project report (DPR). Water levels in Lower Manair Dam for the last 20 years, inflows data and sedimentation along with other details were submitted to the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).
Officials from the SECI will be visiting the dam next week for a detailed study, Sridhar said at a reviewing meeting conducted here. A DPR would be prepared after exploring the possibility of the floating plant at the dam for getting permission, he added. He asked SCCL Director (Electrical and Maintenance) D Satyanarayana Rao to lay a special focus on setting up of floating solar power plant on the dam. The floating solar plant will be in addition to the 300 MW solar power plants being constructed at nine places in Singareni in three phases.
Sridhar asked officials to complete the installation of power plants by October end and synchronise them with the TS Transco grid. Reviewing the installation of solar power plants with SCCL officials dealing with solar and thermal power along with BHEL, Adani and Novis Companies, which are establishing the plants, he said installation of 129 MW power plants in the Phase-I in Singareni was already completed.
Sridhar also reviewed the progress of installation of 81 MW solar power plants in Phase-III. He asked the companies to complete 300 MW solar power plants by October end and synchronise with TS Transco.
