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<p>Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (<a href="https://mrpl.co.in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MRPL</a>), a subsidiary of India’s state Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), has commissioned solar photovoltaic (PV) projects aggregating 6.063 MW within the MRPL refinery premises in Mangalore, Karnataka.</p>
<p>The capacity comprises both ground‑mounted and rooftop solar PV projects.</p>
<p>According to MRPL, 34 rooftops in the refinery premises are being utilized for rooftop solar PV projects.</p>
<p>MRPL tendered the capacity in <a href="https://mercomindia.com/36-4-mw-small-solar-tenders-announced-india-last-week/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 2017</a>. Tata Power Solar Systems emerged as the winning engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor to develop the project.</p>
<p>Previously, Mercom had also <a href="https://mercomindia.com/numaligarh-refinery-tenders-1-mw-solar-project-assam/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on the tender floated by Numaligarh Refinery, a group company of Bharat Petroleum Corporation, for a 1 MW solar project to be developed at the Numaligarh Refinery facility located in Golaghat, Assam.</p>
<p>Tata Power Solar Systems developed the project at a cost of ₹270 million (~$4.14 million). The project is expected to generate more than 24,000 units of electricity per day amounting to more than 8.8 million units per annum.</p>
<p>Tata Power Solar Systems will provide operation and maintenance services for 25 years for the project.</p>
<p>Apollo Pipes Limited (APL) also commissioned a rooftop solar PV project of capacity 1.2 MW at its manufacturing facility in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://mercomindia.com/product/solarinstallations-q4-2017/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mercom’s solar quarterly market update</a>, rooftop installations in the country grew by 56 percent year-over-year with cumulative installations totaling nearly 1.6 GW as of December 31, 2017.</p>
<p>Karnataka’s solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity crossed the <a href="https://mercomindia.com/karnataka-top-solar-state-india/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5 GW mark</a> in the first quarter of 2018 to transform it into India’s top solar PV state.</p>
<p>Image credit: MRPL</p>
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