World's largest single rooftop solar plant in Punjab

BEAS (AMRITSAR): Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal inaugurated a Single Rooftop Solar Power Plant with capacity of 11.5 MW, dedicating it to the state of Beas at Dera Baba Jaimal Singh of Radha Soami Sect. The CM appreciated the Punjab Energy Development Agency to usher in a solar power revolution in the state and lauded the state's immense contribution to tap enormous power potential from various renewable energy sources. Badal said the project would go a long way to motivate the other states for replication of such projects to provide clean and green energy to the consumers. The Rs 139 Crore project is spread over 82 acres of rooftop in single campus on multiple roofs. Also present at the event was Bikram Singh Majithia who said the solar plant would be instrumental in abatement of 4 lakh tonnes of Carbon Dioxide in the next 25 years, which is equivalent to planting nearly 2 lakh trees.