Voltech Group, an Indian provider of services to the power industry, plans to set up a solar plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu to supply companies facing mandatory clean energy targets.
The Chennai based company will set up a 2 MW farm by March, using panels from NanoPV Technologies Inc, sources in the company said. It plans to expand capacity to 10 MW, according to the statement, which didn’t specify a time frame for this scaling up.
Demand for solar power is set to surge in Tamil Nadu after the state announced a policy last month requiring large consumers of electricity, including exporters, manufacturers and operators of telecommunications towers, to source at least 6 per cent of their electricity from solar power by 2014.