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Tata Power Solar unveils its residential solar rooftop campaign #PledgeForSolar

11 Jun 2019
  • Successfully launched residential rooftop solution in more than 18 cities -  Delhi, Mumbai, Ajmer, Bengaluru to name a few
  • Saving is expected up to INR 50,000/- per 5kW per year.

Tata Power Solar, India's largest solar energy company, and Tata Power's wholly owned subsidiary, launches its pan India residential solar rooftop campaign. The campaign has been flagged-off from the holy-city Tirupati to inspire the residents across the country to implement residential solar rooftop solution. This campaign intent to cover 100 cities across India and expected to save up to Rs. 50,000 per 5kW per year. Prof N. N. Kishore, Dean, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati along with other senior dignitaries from the government and key decision makers from the corporate industry who also graced the launch event with their presence.

To support the campaign and create further awareness on the drive, Tata Power Solar is organizing a cycle rally in the city where the local residents will be informed on the benefits of adopting solar energy. Along with this, the initiative has a native connect where the consumers will understand the importance of renewable energy. #PledgeForSolar inspires the people of India to accept the positive change and move towards the solar energy usage.

This initiative reassures Tata Power Solar’s expertise on developing strong consumer relationship by providing quality products, world class customized solutions and extensive service support has helped in exceeding customer satisfaction. A votary of reducing carbon footprint, Tata Power Solar’s residential rooftop solution decreases use of diesel generators, hence leading to more fuel savings. The company already has a robust 150+ sales and service channel partners across India, which provides its valuable consumers with financing options.

Recently, Tata Power Solar successfully executed 400 MW installations in Pavagada Solar Park. Apart from these, Tata Power Solar comes with a successful background of executing World’s largest Rooftop at a single location and India’s largest carport at Cochin International Airport. Tata Power Solar joined hands with Cricket Club of India and installed the World’s largest solar powered Cricket Stadium Mumbai, in a record period of 100 days.

Commenting on the initiative, Mr. Praveer Sinha, MD & CEO, Tata Power, said,This new campaign #PledgeForSolar will encourage the consumer to move towards cleaner and greener solution. We are delighted to offer solar rooftop to generate easy and cost effective electricity to our customers across country. We urge all our customers of Tirupati to take full benefit of this service.”

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Ashish Khanna, President, Tata Power (Renewables), said, “With this new campaign of #PledgeForSolar we endeavor to provide knowledge of commercial benefits as well as quality aspects of solar rooftop installation to our residential consumers. We are hopeful that such initiatives and our cost-effective rooftop solutions will further help consumers to conserve energy and save in power costs. This will also help us in achieving our company’s objective of always remaining No. 1 rooftop player in India.”

About Tata Power:

Tata Power is India’s largest integrated power company and, together with its subsidiaries & jointly controlled entities, has an installed capacity of 10957 MW. A pioneer in the field, it has a presence across the entire power value chain: Generation of renewable as well as conventional power including hydro and thermal energy; transmission & distribution, trading and coal & freight logistics. With renewable energy assets in solar and wind accounting for 30% of the company's portfolio, Tata Power is a leader in clean energy generation. In line with the company's view on sustainable and clean energy development, Tata Power is steering the transformation of utilities to integrated solutions by looking at new business growth in EV charging & storage, distributed generation & rooftops, microgrids and home automation & smart meters.

It has successful public-private partnerships in generation, transmission & distribution in India namely: ‘Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd.’ with Delhi Vidyut Board for distribution in North Delhi; 'Tata Power Ajmer Distribution Ltd.' with Ajmer Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd. for distribution in Ajmer; 'Powerlinks Transmission Ltd.' with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. for evacuation of Power from Tala hydro plant in Bhutan to Delhi; 'Maithon Power Ltd.' with Damodar Valley Corporation for a 1050 MW Mega Power Project at Jharkhand. Tata Power is serving more than 2.6 million distribution consumers in India and has developed the country’s first 4000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra (Gujarat) based on super-critical technology.

With growing international focus, Tata Power's global presence includes strategic investments in Indonesia through a 30% stake in the coal company PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC); 26% stake in mines at PT Baramulti Suksessarana Tbk  (BSSR); in Singapore through Trust Energy Resources; in South Africa through a joint venture called ‘Cennergi’ to develop projects in sub-Sahara Africa; in Zambia through a 50:50 joint venture with ZESCO for 120 MW Hydro project; in Georgia through AGL which is a joint venture with Clean Energy, Norway & IFC for development of 187 MW hydro project; in Bhutan through a hydro project in partnership with The Royal Government of Bhutan.

With its 103 years track record of technology leadership, project execution excellence, world-class safety processes, customer care and driving green initiatives, Tata Power is poised for multi-fold growth and committed to 'lighting up lives' for generations to come. Visit us at: www.tatapower.com  

 


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