Chennai, Sept 22 (BPNS)

Tamil Nadu power minister, Senthil Balaji has said that the state has touched the highest level of solar power generation. In a statement on Thursday, the minister said that the state generated 3782 MW of solar power at 12.30 hours on September 21.

He also said that solar energy consumption reached a peak of 28.6 million units.  The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company (Tangedco) said that the previous high of solar generation was 3658MW on September 3, 2022, and the previous maximum consumption of solar power was 27.12 million units on March 1, 2022.

The Tangedco officials said that the present climatic conditions were very favourable for generation of solar energy. It is to be noted that the high generation of solar energy in Tamil Nadu is after a record generation of power through wind energy in the recently concluded season.

On average Tamil Nadu’s power consumption is  17,000 MW per day.