Punjab all set for green energy revolution : Sukhbir Badal

MANSA : Continuing the state’s thrust towards revolutionary green energy, the Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today inaugurated solar power project with a total capacity of 31.5 MW at village Lakhmirwala in Mansa district.With this, Punjab’s shift to green revolution to the green power revolution has moved into the next orbit with total solar power installation already touching 210 mw and poised to touch 541mw by March next.Extending congratulations to Essel Group for investing Rs 259 crore in a solar power project here, Badal said the augmentation of these projects reflected that Punjab was set to jump from a meager 9 MW solar power capacity in 2012 to more than 500 mw this year.Badal said Punjab had fixed a target of 2000 MW by 2017-18 with a proposed investment of Rs. 4000 crore out of which works on investments worth Rs. 1500 were under process with sanctioning of 29 projects. He said 40 projects with Rs. 2500 crore investments to generate 331 MW solar power were also going on and Punjab would have 541 MW power by March 2017. He also announced that various welfare schemes were on the cards and Punjab Government would announce a series of such schemes within two months.He said one of the State’s biggest achievements was the creation of the world’s largest 7.5 MW single rooftop solar project at Radha Soami Satsang, Beas and this project was being enlarged further with a capacity of 31.5 MW which would make it world’s largest rooftop PV plant. He added that the State had allocated four roof top projects with capacity of 64 MW.