New Delhi: State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has secured Gujarat Alkalies and Chemical Limited order for setting up a 15 MW solar photovoltaic power plant on EPC basis at Charanka in North Gujarat.

This detail was shared today by BHEL in a statement.

This will be BHEL’s first ground-mounted Solar PV project in Gujarat. The company is presently executing over 180 MW of ground-mounted and rooftop Solar PV projects across the country, it said.

BHEL offers EPC solutions for both off-grid and grid- interactive SPV power plants and has set up solar plants in various locations in India including the Lakshadweep Islands for island electrification.

It has enhanced its state-of-the-art manufacturing lines of solar cells to 105 MW and solar modules to 226 MW per annum. In addition, space-grade solar panels using high efficiency cells and space-grade battery panels are manufactured at its Electronic Systems Division, Bengaluru.