Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd has bagged the Enertia Winners Award for ‘Manufacturing, Technology & Enterprise Innovation–Solar Thermal’ at the 8th Enertia Awards 2014 held at New Delhi.
These annual awards are conferred by Enertia Foundation, a public trust/non-government organisation for the promotion of clean, green and sustainable energy and power in India, SAARC and rest of Asia. The award was selected by an eminent jury panel comprising experts in their respective fields.
P P Reddy, Chairman of MEIL, received the award.
The event was presided by Yogendra Prasad, former CMD of NHPC, Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secretary, MNRE – National Solar Mission, along with officials from NTPC, NHPC, IREDA, among others.
MEIL Green Power Ltd., a subsidiary of MEIL, has set up a 50-MW solar thermal power plant at Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh on build-own-operate basis using concentrated solar power on a parabolic trough system. This is one of the first and pioneering solar thermal power plants under the National Solar Mission Phase-I.