Mp News : Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company’s first solar power plant inaugurated

Energy Minister Pradyuman Singh Tomar on Saturday inaugurated seven MW solar power plants of Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company located at Rataguradia in Mandsaur district through video conferencing. The construction of these plants cost about Rs 42 crore and it is estimated that about 1.25 crore units of electricity will be produced every year.

Congratulating Energy Minister Shri Tomar, he said that the power generating company will increase the production of electricity by doing better work in the field of renewable energy.

Rataguradia Solar Power Plant is the first solar plant of Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company. Earlier, Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company was producing electricity only from coal and water based power plants. Keeping in view the need of the hour, efforts are also being made to install other solar plants on the vacant land of the currently operational thermal power plants of the company.