Sunshot commissions rooftop solar plants for Mold-Tek, ESPI.

Sunshot Technologies has announced the commissioning of a 90 kWp rooftop solar power plant at the Mold-Tek Group and a 102 kWp unit at ESPI Industries & Chemicals in Hyderabad.

The power plant at Mold-Tek will generate around 1.38 lakh units annually and the one at ESPI 1.55 lakh units a year. These two power plants will collectively help save 240 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.

Both the plants feature high-efficiency modules and inverters and have been designed to withstand high intensity winds and harsh climatic conditions.

The modules have been manufactured with PERC (Passive Emitter Rear Cell) technology, which lends a higher module efficiency (19 per cent) and increases the gross generation by 14 per cent over standard modules used in the market, the company stated.

This technology helps in generating electricity in low-light conditions. A total of 292 modules have been installed for the project along with two inverters of 36 kW capacity. Both the power plants are installed under the ‘Net Metering’ scheme in Telangana. Net Metering allows customers to feed excess solar power generated into the power grid and get ‘set-off’ benefit in the electricity bill for grid power consumed when solar power is not available. Sunshot has installed its Cloud-based IoT platform to do data-driven operation and maintenance.

“Rooftop solar power generation at commercial and industrial infrastructure is a commercially viable opportunity. Such initiatives are a great way of embracing sustainability among the corporates,” said Rahul Dasari, CEO & Co-founder of Sunshot Technologies, a company founded by the alumni of IIM Ahmedabad.

He said the company has so far installed rooftop solar plants at more than 150 commercial and industrial entities, including one at Nampally Railway Station in Hyderabad (228 kWp) and Bangalore International Airport (3.35 MWp) in the recent past.

HBL