ABB Limited, India, has won orders worth INR 161 million to supply turnkey power and automation solution for three photovoltaic solar power plants with a combined capacity of 11MW in India.
The orders comprise of two 5 MW photovoltaic solar power plants and one 1 MW photovoltaic solar power plant. When completed in October this year, the plants will have an annual generating capacity of up to17.6 GW hours of electricity, avoiding approximately12500 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, equivalent to the annual emissions of about 3100 Indian cars.
ABB is responsible for the design, engineering, manufacturing, installation commissioning of the plants and will deliver the turnkey electrical and control solution within an extremely short time span of sixteen weeks. Key products to be supplied include inverters, low voltage equipment, medium voltage switchgear, transformers, cables, distributed control systems, remote monitoring systems and auxiliary systems.
The equipment is designed to minimize power losses and maximize efficiency, and includes high efficiency inverters and technologies for the accurate control and remote monitoring of the plant.
Mr Priteesh Mahajan senior VP business development and strategy and head of ABB India's industry sector initiatives said that "Our pre assembled, factory-tested electrical balance of plant modules combined with our domain expertise and proven track records in project execution enable us to deliver an optimized solution in a short span of time."
