Excellence Award

Rooftop Solar

The West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited has taken up Solar Generation as a special initiative. The capacity of the total Solar Generation Installation sums up to 20.85 MW out of which 10.85 MW of rooftop installations are at the Corporation Headquarters at Salt Lake, Kolkata. Apart from that, at Sagardighi Power Project, a 10 MW ground installation and a floating Solar Power plant on Water Body No. 3 having a capacity of 5 MW has been built which is highest in capacity of its type in India. WBPDCL has already garnered 3 Awards for its outstanding efforts in this field of renewable energy. On 26-Jun-2019 WBPDCL has competed for the SKOCH Award and won the SKOCH AWARD OF MERIT(GOLD) and SKOCH CORPORATE EXCELLENCE AWARD in the category SOLAR PLANT IN THERMAL POWER PLANT.

Rooftop Solar PV Project
Sl No Project Capacity(KWp) Remarks
1 Sagardighi Thermal Power Project 3511 Total Roof 20
2 Kolaghat Thermal Power Station 2770.52 Total Roof 7
3 Bakreswar Thermal Power Plant 2866 Total Roof 16
4 Santaldih Thermal Power Station 808 Total Roof 10
5 Bandel Thermal Power Station 1089 Total Roof 11
6 WBPDCL Headquarters 80
7 WBPDCL HQ Solar Tree 6.4

Ground Installed Solar Panels
Sl No Project Capacity(KWp) Remarks
1 Sagardighi Thermal Power Project 10
SKOCH AWARD on Corporate Excellence GOLD award for Solar PV Projects in Thermal Power Plant by Skoch Group, New Delhi
Future Projects
Sl No Project Capacity(KWp) Remarks
1 Sagardighi Thermal Power Project Floating Solar Panel 10 Water Body No 1, 2, 4 and 5
2 Sagardighi Thermal Power Project 5

On-going Projects
Sl No Project Capacity(KWp) Remarks
1 Sagardighi Thermal Power Project Floating Solar Panels 5 Water Body No 3