The project activity is the installation of a new grid-connected 400 MW_AC Solar power plant/unit at a site where no renewable power plant was operating prior to the implementation of the project activity (green-field plant). Earlier the project was proposed for 500MW but at later stage the bids was finalized for three bidders and the Letters of Intent (LoI) were issued to the three firms viz. (i) M/s Vikram Solar Pvt. Ltd. for 200 MW, (ii) M/s KEC for 100 MW and (iii) M/s MCNally Bharat for 100 MW, on 09/03/2017 for executing the solar power project of 400 MW capacity and that the detailed contracts were issued on 02/05/2017. The project activity is solar power project which is being implemented in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh by Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Limited. The electricity generated from Project Activity is exported to the Indian grid there by displacing the consumption of electricity from the regional grid electricity distribution system.

The electricity generated by the project “Solar Power Project in Andhra Pradesh, India” will thus replace the equivalent amount of electricity generated by the operation of existing grid connected power plants (mostly fossil fuel-based power plants). In this scope, Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Limited planned to install Solar Panels in with the purpose of contributing to the national economy. The estimated annual average electricity generation by the project activity is 645,175 MWh.

The  project activity will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG’s) estimated to be a total of 6,006,731 tCO₂e over the total 10 years crediting period or average 600,673 tCO₂e/annum, thereon displacing 6,451,752 MWh amount of electricity over the 10-year crediting period or average of 645,175 MWh/year amount of electricity from the generation-mix of power plants connected to the Indian electricity grid, which is mainly dominated by thermal/ fossil fuel-based power plant.