Bihar is likely get a 2 megawatt floating solar power plant in Darbhanga within a month. The project also aims to promote pisciculture.
- The unit will come up over a six -acre pond. The plant consists of 4,004 solar modules.
- Each module is installed in the pond and is capable of generating 505 megawatt peak (MWp) electricity.
- The floating power plant will help meet two goals: Produce green energy from solar panels and promote fish farming.
- Floating solar power plants were part of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s ambitious plan to use water bodies for sustainable development by generating green energy along with fish farming.
- Nitish Kumar had announced the start of something new barely a few years ago, with the tag line ‘Niche machli, upar bijli’ (fish below and energy above).
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