'WORLD'S LARGEST' ROOFTOP SOUR PLANT OPENS IN BEAS

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An 11.5 MW rooftop solar energy plant, touted to be the largest of its kind in the world, has been inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Punjab Shri Prakash Singh Badal in Beas near Amritsar. Spread in an area of over 82 acres and nearly 45 km away from Amritsar, the solar plant has been built at a cost of () 139 crore by the Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB). It will generate nearly 150 lakh units annually and is expected to offset 19,000 tonnes of carbon emissions annually.With this, the ?139-crore solar energy plant here has become country's largest, with solar panels spread over 82 acres on eight rooftops of sheds and a capacity to generate 19.5 MW.The project will generate 27 million units of electricity per annum, enough to cater to the electricity needs of approximately 8,000 households.The Chief Minister lauded the sect management for setting up the solar plant, while the state's renewable energy minister Shri Bikram Singh Majithia said the Punjab government was focussing on setting up solar energy plants across the state. Shri Badal extoled the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) for ushering in a solar-power revolution in the state. Badal said the state-of-the-art project set up by the Radha Soami Satsang Beas Educational and Environmental Society (RSSBEES) in technical collaboration with PEDA will go a long way in motivating other states to replicate such projects to generate clean and green energy.