據能源世界網9月25日加爾各答報道，西孟加拉邦內閣周四批準了在穆爾西達巴德的薩加迪熱電項目（SgTPP）的5MW并網浮式太陽能項目。

在一次新聞發布會上，內政大臣Alapan Bandopadhyay表示，這個5兆瓦發電量的浮動太陽能電站將是這個國家最大的同類電站。此前，在蒂魯帕蒂附近的奇圖爾有一座發電能力為4兆瓦的核電站。邦政府將花費2200億盧比來開發這個電廠。在全面運行后，其將能夠為超過10萬戶家庭提供電力。

知情人士表示，該項目可能會因新冠疫情推遲完成。電力部門一位高級官員稱，該項目本應在今年4月完成，但因新冠疫情，一切都被擱置了。我們現在不能具體說明項目完成的確切時間。

西孟加拉電力發展有限公司(WBPDCL)將委托該工廠將太陽能組件漂浮在由法國公司Ciel & Terre制造的Hydrolio浮動平臺上。該項目將在SgTPP的3號原水池以包建方法開發。

據電力部門高級官員說，孟加拉正在認真考慮替代能源。在此之后，WBPDCL將為Purulia地區Santhaldih熱電站開發另一個5兆瓦的浮動太陽能光伏項目。這將開辟新的發電渠道。

浮動式太陽能光伏項目在印度正逐漸受到關注。 在過去的幾個月中，已經為此類項目發布了一些招標書。其中包括一個由維薩卡帕特南市政公司（Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation）招標的3MW項目，該項目將在安得拉邦維薩卡帕特南的Meghadrigedda水庫進行開發。維薩卡帕特南智慧城市有限公司（Greater Visakhapatnam Smart City Corporation Limited ）也投標了一個位于Mudasarlova水庫的2兆瓦浮動太陽能項目，該水庫也位于維薩卡帕特南。

2017年12月，印度太陽能公司(Solar Energy Corporation of India)邀請各方對未來三年內分階段建立100萬千瓦的浮動太陽能光伏項目表達意見。

郝芬 譯自 能源世界

原文如下：

India’s largest floating solar plant to come up in Sagardighi

The West Bengal cabinet on Thursday approved a 5MW grid-connected floating solar project at Sagardighi Thermal Power Project (SgTPP) in Murshidabad. State power minister Sovondeb Chattopadhyay raised the issue at the cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Mamata Banerjee. It was later approved by the cabinet.

At a press conference, home secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay said: “This floating solar plant with 5MW capacity will be the largest of its kind in the country. Previously, there was one at Chittur near Tirupati that had a generation capacity of 4MW. The state government will have to spend Rs 22 crore for developing the plant. It will be able to provide electricity to more than 1 lakh households after becoming fully operational”.

Sources close to the development indicated that Covid pandemic could delay the completion. “The project was supposed to be completed in April 2020 but because of Covid, everything was put on hold. We can’t specify now the exact timeframe for project completion,” a senior power department official said.

West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited (WBPDCL) will commission the plant that will have solar modules afloat on the Hydrolio floating platform, made by French company Ciel & Terre. The project is to be developed in raw water pond number 3 of SgTPP on a turnkey basis.

According to senior power department officials, Bengal is seriously considering alternative sources of power. “After this, WBPDCL will come up with another 5MW floating solar PV project for Santhaldih Thermal Power Station in Purulia district. This will open new avenues of power generation,” the official said.

Floating solar PV projects are slowly gaining traction in India. Over the past few months, a number of tenders for such projects have been issued. These include a 3MW project tendered by Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation set to be developed in the Meghadrigedda Reservoir in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Greater Visakhapatnam Smart City Corporation Limited too tendered a 2MW floating solar project in the Mudasarlova Reservoir, also in Visakhapatnam.

In December 2017, Solar Energy Corporation of India had invited expressions of interest to set up 10GW of floating solar PV projects in a phased manner over the following three years.