Construction starts on 25MW solar on India’s Andaman and Nicobar islands

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The projects are the first to be tendered by NTPC in combination with storage. Credit: Rajnath Singh website

Indian home minister Rajnath Singh has laid the foundation stone for 25MW of PV projects in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

These include a 17MW plant at Manglutan, near Guptapara Village and 8MW at Chidiyatapu in South Andaman District.

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The solar projects were the first to be tendered by NTPC to be combined with energy storage – although storage is tendered separately.

NTPC has signed an MoU for a total of 50MW solar-plus-storage capacity with the Andaman & Nicobar Administration and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in New Delhi.

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