11th Dec, New Delhi: Sterling and Wilson, ranked 9th largest solar EPC and the only Indian EPC in the top 10 globally by IHS research, has been bestowed with the prestigious Inter-solar Award 2015 in the utility scale category at this year’s exhibition in Mumbai, India. The award was presented for the company’s path breaking work in developing a large 11 MWp Solar Power Plant in Solapur, Maharashtra on total turnkey EPC basis under JNNSM Phase II Batch I. The company received the prestigious award during a ceremony on November 18th 2015, the first day of India’s largest trade show for the solar industry this year.
Commissioned in 2015, the plant is spread across 45.5 acres of land with 36,000 polycrystalline modules. The solar plant powers close to 18000 Indian homes and displaces approximately 14000 tons of CO2 which is equivalent to taking around 30,000 cars off the road. Sterling & Wilson offered a turnkey service in terms of land, permits and putting up the evacuation on time for the project. The project also created over 300 jobs thereby contributing to the economy at large.
