L&T Construction has commissioned India's largest solar photo voltaic based power plant (40 MWp) owned by Reliance Power Limited at Dhursar Village, Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan.
L&T Construction executed the solar power plant from concept to commissioning in 129 days. The new plant is the country's largest solar photo voltaic based power plant owned by Reliance Power.
The PV power plant, which comprises more than 5,00,000 high output generating thin film technology based solar PV modules and thirteen 3.5 MVA power transmissions to generate 40 MWp, is spread across 350 acres.
The thin film Solar PV modules for the project were produced by Reliance; while L&T's scope of work included complete design, engineering, procurement and construction of 40MWp solar power plant, including construction of a 5 km double circuit transmission line.
With the commissioning of this plant, the company has installed 114MW of utility scale solar PV power plants over the last fiscal.