CM inaugurates solar plants in Dwarka residential societies

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday inaugurated solar plants at Dwarka residential societies. The new large-scale residential solar power plants are located at Dwarka's residential societies including Ispat CGHS, Saksham apartments, Supriya apartments, Balaji Apartments and Navrattan apartments. The total capacity of the plants is 416.5 KW.

The plants are set up on the rooftop of the residential society. Thus, no additional land is being used and only the unused rooftop area is being used.

The five societies which has 505 flats, will be the first ever projects on a large scale after IP Extension's Milan Colony to have their own solar power plant. The plants would generate more than 4.8 lakh units of power each year, and cumulatively 1.2 crore units of power over the life of the plant (25 years). This clean solar energy would replace over 1 crore kgs (or 10,000 tonnes) of carbon dioxide emissions over the life of the plant.

The plant is being set up without any investment from the society, and would be set up by the development partner Oakridge Energy Pvt Ltd and Revanta on a long term power purchase agreement. The price of the power would be Rs. 4.6 per unit and price would further reduce by Rs 2 as the installations would be eligible for incentive of Rs 2 per unit from the Delhi government. So the actual price of per unit would be Rs 2.6.