Fortum Company's 10 MW solar power plant in MP goes on stream

INDORE: A 10 MW solar power plant of Finnish firm Fortum Company, located in neighbouring Ujjain district, became operational today.

With this, the company's green power generation capacity in India has gone up to 15 MW.

In his speech at the inaugural function, Solar Energy Corporation of India's Managing Director Ashwani Kumar said that solar power plant has come up under second phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) at Kapeli village and it was nation's first Greenfield project.

Kumar said with the start of JNNSM the country's solar power generation capacity has gone up to over 3,000 mw.

Fortum India Managing Director Sanjay Agrawal said the Kapeli project was their second plant in the country and its first project of 5 MW was already operational in Rajasthan.

The company's Executive Vice President Markus Rauramo was also present at the function.