World’s largest solar tree record smashed
The Indian site has been certified a Guinness world record.
Image: CSIR-CMERI
From pv magazine India[2]
Guinness World Records has confirmed the world’s largest solar tree[3] has been installed in India.
The construction, which has 309.83m2 of solar panel surface, has been constructed at the Centre of Excellence for Farm Machinery[4], Ludhiana[5], in Punjab[6] by the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute[7], which is part of the government’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research[8].
The structure, which has smashed the previous solar tree record of 67m2 of panel surface, has a generation capacity of 53.6kWp and can generate an estimated 160-200kWh per day.
Harish Hirani, director of the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, said: “These solar trees have wide applications such as distributed power generation to cater [to] the needs of different integrated farming activities of charging e-tractors, e-power tillers, and EV [electric vehicle] charging stations; running agriculture pumps[9] for irrigation needs; solar-based cooking systems[10] for food preparation at the farm site; and powering the cold storage[11] needs of the farm produce, thereby increasing the shelf life [of the goods].”
Author: Uma Gupta
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- ^ Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (www.pv-magazine-india.com)
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