Azure Power commissions 100MW in India

Indian independent power producer Azure Power has commissioned its largest  solar plant under India's National Solar Mission (NSM) policy — a 100MW installation in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.

Azure Power won the plant under the NSM Phase-2 Batch I to provide power to Solar Energy Corporation of India for 25 years.

With this facility now commissioned, Azure Power is now the single largest owner and operator of solar PV plants under the NSM with a combined operational capacity of 142MW. The company commissioned the plant in under eight months.

Inderpreet Wadhwa, founder and chief executive officer at Azure Power, said: "With the commissioning of this 100 MW plant we have once again demonstrated our strong project development, engineering and execution capabilities. This is the largest capacity project under the NSM Phase-2, where the power is being sold to Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) at INR 5.45 /KWhr with Viability Gap Funding. This is almost a 70% reduction in price of solar power since our first project in 2009 and we are pleased to make this contribution towards attaining grid parity for solar power.”