Focus on Clean technologies:

Tata Power is experimenting with span of unique pilot projects across energy sources:

Biomass gasification: An 8 to 14 kW biomass producer gas based generation system has been developed with the help of Tata Motors and IISc. A pilot plant is being commissioned at Walwhan. The gasifier for the same has been designed in-house and is under fabrication.

Concentrated photovoltaic (C-PV): A 13.5kW pilot unit was developed in which sunrays are concentrated on PV cells and the assembly floats on Walwhan lake (Maharashtra) in order to cool the cells. The pilot project is currently under evaluation.

Solar powered telecom towers: More than 600,000 telecom towers in India use diesel generator sets to provide power to their antennas. Tata Power Solar Solutions Ltd., a 100% subsidiary of Tata Power is providing solar PV panels that can replace the gensets on 25 such installations. This technology can be upgraded to augment power to local grids. Tata Power has successfully demonstrated similar generation solution, using thin film technology which overcomes the effect of shadows from the tower.