Hyderabad: The Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) on Thursday commissioned a 30 MW solar power plant at Manuguru and synchronised it to the grid. This is part of the 129 MW solar plants planned by SCCL in the first phase. The coal mining agency is planning to roll out solar power plants to generate 300 MW in various parts of Telangana.
SCCL chairman and managing director N Sridhar said a 10 MW solar plant at Jaipur in Mancherial district was commissioned and now with the start of the Manuguru plant, 40 MW of power is being supplied to the state grid.
He said the balance plants would come up at Ramagundam-3 area with 50 MW capacity and another 30 MW in Yellandu would be rolled out in next two months. tnn