Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal on Tuesday inaugurated the world’s largest solar rooftop plant in Beas, about 40 km from Amritsar.
This 11.5 MW rooftop plant is spread across 82 acres and is the largest of its kind in the world.
The solar power plant, made at the cost of Rs 139 crores, has been built by Radha Saomi Satsang Beas (RSSB), a religious organization.
In order to promote green technology, the plant will generate about 150 lakh units of power annually and is expected to offset 19,000 tonnes of carbon emissions. In addition to this, seven other solar plants of 8 MW each were also inaugurated, thus making the Beas Dera campus the only campus generating solar power of 19.5 MW at multiple rooftops in the country.
Prakash Singh Badal lauded the state’s efforts to emerge as a front runner in solar power generation.
