Power elephantine NTPC connected Tuesday said it has signed an statement with the Indian Army to proviso 200 kilowatt of round-the-clock renewable vigor from Ladakh microgrid.
The powerfulness acquisition statement (PPA) has been signed for a play of 25 years for merchantability of (200 kW RE-RTC (renewable energy-round the clock) from solar-hydrogen based microgrid astatine Chushul (Ladakh), NTPC said successful a statement.
NTPC's solar-hydrogen based microgrid offers a solution to regenerate Army's existing diesel gensets frankincense avoiding fossil substance logistics statement and helps debar 1,500 tonnes of Co2 annually.
NTPC said, "This is world's astir unsocial hydrogen based off-grid microgrid task astatine an altitude of 4,400 m and temperatures dipping to -30 deg C successful winter. Once operational, it would usher successful a caller epoch of decarbonisation and modernisation of the defence assemblage successful the borderline locations of the Himalayas."