The Government of Punjab has announced the installation of the world's largest solar power roof top panels at the Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Beas in Amritsar today. The panels will cover a total area of 82 acres over eight shelters with the project cost of Rs 139 crores.Commissioned by Tata Solar Power for R.S.S.B Educational and Educational Society in Amritsar, the plant will be the largest installation of solar roof top panels in a single phase. Dera Baba Jaimal Singh also boasts of the 11.5 MW Power Plant on a single roof top, the largest in India.
The environmental benefits are touted to be equivalent to that of planting two lakh trees and abetment of 4 lakh tonnes of carbon dioxide in the next 25 years.