Mumbai: Moser Baer India, with business interest in optical storage
media, is developing a 1 MW solar power project in Chandrapur in
Maharashtra.
When completed, it will be one of the largest solar projects in the
world using the latest thin film technology, the firm said. Thin films
improve the efficiency with which solar cells convert sunlight to
electricity.
The company won the contract from Mahagenco, a Maharashtra
government-owned power utility, on the basis of a global tender that
attracted 20 bids.
The project will be commissioned in consortium with SunEnergy GMBH of Germany, the company said in a statement.
"The agreement terms include commissioning of the project by January
2010 and maintenance of the project thereafter," the firm's spokesman
said.
"This project, I am sure, will herald the widespread deployment of such
solar farms in the country," said Moser Baer executive director Ratul
Puri.
