SCI’s Maritime Institute switches to Renewable Energy
On Monday, 23rd January 2017, Mr Rajive Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Shipping inaugurated 353.5 KWP Grid connected Roof Top Solar Power Plant at Maritime Training Institute, Powai of The Shipping Corporation of India Limited in total Roof Top area of 5,650 Sq. Mtr. in the presence of Capt. Anoop Kumar Sharma, CMD SCI, Capt. B.B. Sinha, Director (P&A) SCI, Mrs. H.K. Joshi, Director (Finance) SCI, Capt. Philip Mathews, Principal MTI and others.
The payback period for EPC cost and for both EPC & O&M will be around 5 years and 7 years respectively. The life of Solar plant is expected to be around 20 years.
The power generated from the plant will be enough to cater to the need of sanctioned load of entire premises. SCI is the first organisation in Maharashtra to go for “Net Metering” with Reliance Energy, after Govt. of Maharashtra ratified the “Net Metering” in state. Thus the excess generated power shall be exported /fed-back to Grid.
SCI has vision to enhance Solar Power generation upto 1 megawatt and thereby reduce its Carbon Foot Print and contribute to Nation’s goal of attainting 175 GW of renewable energy in India by the year 2022.
