印度将在萨加迪建设该国最大浮式太阳能发电厂

据能源世界网9月25日加尔各答报道，西孟加拉邦内阁周四批准了在穆尔西达巴德的萨加迪热电项目（SgTPP）的5MW并网浮式太阳能项目。

在一次新闻发布会上，内政大臣Alapan Bandopadhyay表示，这个5兆瓦发电量的浮动太阳能电站将是这个国家最大的同类电站。此前，在蒂鲁帕蒂附近的奇图尔有一座发电能力为4兆瓦的核电站。邦政府将花费2200亿卢比来开发这个电厂。在全面运行后，其将能够为超过10万户家庭提供电力。

知情人士表示，该项目可能会因新冠疫情推迟完成。电力部门一位高级官员称，该项目本应在今年4月完成，但因新冠疫情，一切都被搁置了。我们现在不能具体说明项目完成的确切时间。

西孟加拉电力发展有限公司(WBPDCL)将委托该工厂将太阳能组件漂浮在由法国公司Ciel & Terre制造的Hydrolio浮动平台上。该项目将在SgTPP的3号原水池以包建方法开发。

据电力部门高级官员说，孟加拉正在认真考虑替代能源。在此之后，WBPDCL将为Purulia地区Santhaldih热电站开发另一个5兆瓦的浮动太阳能光伏项目。这将开辟新的发电渠道。

浮动式太阳能光伏项目在印度正逐渐受到关注。 在过去的几个月中，已经为此类项目发布了一些招标书。其中包括一个由维萨卡帕特南市政公司（Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation）招标的3MW项目，该项目将在安得拉邦维萨卡帕特南的Meghadrigedda水库进行开发。维萨卡帕特南智慧城市有限公司（Greater Visakhapatnam Smart City Corporation Limited ）也投标了一个位于Mudasarlova水库的2兆瓦浮动太阳能项目，该水库也位于维萨卡帕特南。

2017年12月，印度太阳能公司(Solar Energy Corporation of India)邀请各方对未来三年内分阶段建立100万千瓦的浮动太阳能光伏项目表达意见。

郝芬 译自 能源世界

原文如下：

India’s largest floating solar plant to come up in Sagardighi

The West Bengal cabinet on Thursday approved a 5MW grid-connected floating solar project at Sagardighi Thermal Power Project (SgTPP) in Murshidabad. State power minister Sovondeb Chattopadhyay raised the issue at the cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Mamata Banerjee. It was later approved by the cabinet.

At a press conference, home secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay said: “This floating solar plant with 5MW capacity will be the largest of its kind in the country. Previously, there was one at Chittur near Tirupati that had a generation capacity of 4MW. The state government will have to spend Rs 22 crore for developing the plant. It will be able to provide electricity to more than 1 lakh households after becoming fully operational”.

Sources close to the development indicated that Covid pandemic could delay the completion. “The project was supposed to be completed in April 2020 but because of Covid, everything was put on hold. We can’t specify now the exact timeframe for project completion,” a senior power department official said.

West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited (WBPDCL) will commission the plant that will have solar modules afloat on the Hydrolio floating platform, made by French company Ciel & Terre. The project is to be developed in raw water pond number 3 of SgTPP on a turnkey basis.

According to senior power department officials, Bengal is seriously considering alternative sources of power. “After this, WBPDCL will come up with another 5MW floating solar PV project for Santhaldih Thermal Power Station in Purulia district. This will open new avenues of power generation,” the official said.

Floating solar PV projects are slowly gaining traction in India. Over the past few months, a number of tenders for such projects have been issued. These include a 3MW project tendered by Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation set to be developed in the Meghadrigedda Reservoir in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Greater Visakhapatnam Smart City Corporation Limited too tendered a 2MW floating solar project in the Mudasarlova Reservoir, also in Visakhapatnam.

In December 2017, Solar Energy Corporation of India had invited expressions of interest to set up 10GW of floating solar PV projects in a phased manner over the following three years.