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The first farm-based solar power plant under the Prime Minister’s Kisan Urja Suraksha Evum Utthan Mahabhiyan (KUSUM) scheme has come up in Jaipur district’s Kotputli tehsil with a provision for production of 17 lakh units of electricity every year.

Highlights

• The 1 MW project has been established on 3.50 acres of farmland in Kotputli’s Bhaloji village.
• The new plant is also the first of the 623 farm-based solar power projects selected by the Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Limited (RRECL)
• It has generating capacity of 722 MW  in the State under the scheme’s first phase.
• The project has been commissioned following a 25-year contract signed between the RRECL and farmland owner Devkaran Yadav in September 2020.

Targets

The capacity to be developed under the KUSUM scheme will be of the order of 2,600 MW, for which the letters of award have been issued to 623 applicants.

Source: The Hindu