Gujarat to construct rooftop PV systems in five cities

Gujarat will install rooftop PV systems in five different cities based upon the PV rooftop system in Gandhinagar.

Under this program, Azure Power India and SunEdison will both provide 2.5MW of energy, which will be installed on rented rooftops.

The five cities that will have such systems installed are Mehsana, Rajkot, Vadodara, Surat and the city of Bhavnagar.

The International Finance Corporation will support this undertaking.

Funding will be provided by public-private partnerships and the businesses renting out the rooftops will receive a small part of the revenues, although they cannot use any of the generated energy themselves.

The Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute and the Gujarat Power Corporation will manage the projects.

Developers will be chosen through a competitive bidding process.