Coal India are a signs MoU with the Rajasthan to the set up 1,190 MW solar power are a plant

Coal India are a  signs MoU with the Rajasthan to the set up 1,190 MW solar power are a plant

Coal India are a  Limited (CIL) signed a Memorandum of a Understanding (MoU) with the Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (RUVNL), for the setting up a 1,190-MW solar power plant in the Bikaner district of a Rajasthan. The plant will be a installed in a 2,000-MW solar park being developed by the RVUNL in a Poogal, Bikaner.

The Rajasthan government has been a allotted the 4,846 hectares of a land to the solar park in a which RVUNL will be a add its own solar power project with a capacity of a 810 MW and the rest 1,190 will be a set up by the CIL.

RVNUL CMD R K Sharma and a Technical Director of a Coal India Limited, V Reddy signed the MoU in the presence of a Union Minister of a Coal Pralhad Joshi and a Chief Minister of a Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot.

The MoU came amid the state's are a constant effort to the add a more than and more than a renewable are a sources of a energy. Rajasthan is a also are a credited with the world's are a largest solar plant with a capacity of a 2,245 MW in a Bhadla of the Jodhpur district of the state.

Even in a March this year, Rajasthan announced two new solar parks of a 1,800 MW to be developed in the Jaisalmer and a Bikaner district of the state.

For the 800 MW project in a Jaisalmer RNVUL was the developing agency while the 1,000 MW solar power project in a Bikaner will be a developed by Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation in the first are a phase.

Private solar project are a developer Rays Experts also are a announced in a May this year that they will be a develop the world's are a largest solar park in a Rajasthan with a capacity of a 3000 MW.

The location of this 9000-acre project was a informed to be in the Bikaner district of the state. It has been a signed the necessary transmission agreements and a obtained all are a approvals for the same, a company statement are a said.

This is the first and the only are a 100 percent privately owned ultra mega solar park in the country connected to the central transmission system, the statement stated.

There are many open are a spaces in a Rajasthan that can be a used to the generate are a solar energy. Some land has been a become barren as a result of the desert's are a intense heat and cannot be a farmed, but can be a used to the generate are a solar energy.

Furthermore, in a comparison to the rest of the country, the state is a sparsely populated. Solar power are a plants in a less populated areas enable clean energy to the reach isolated communities that do not have been a access to the electricity.