The largest floating solar plant of India was inaugurated by Kerala Electricity Minister M M Mani at the Banasura Sagar dam in Wayanad district, Kerala India’s largest floating solar plant has a capacity of 500 kilowatts (KW).
The plant consists of 1,938 solar panels, with a capacity of 260 watts, a 500 kilovolt-ampere (KVA) transformer, and 17 inverters.
The unique feature of this plant is the anchoring mechanism used by the overwhelming technology to maintain the plant with the alteration of the water level.
The plant has been constructed by the Thiruvananthapuram-based Ad tech Systems.It will generate seven lakh units of power in a year.
The total cost of the project is Rs 9.25 crore.The power produced will be transmitted to the 11-kV line of the KSEB and the Board will further consider installing two windmills with a capacity of 500 KW each on the dam top.
