Vizag Port to run on solar power from next month

Vizag port in APis set to run its entire operations on solar power from March, its chairman MT Krishna Babu said. Visakhapatnam Port Trust has commissioned 2 MW solar capacity and will add another 8 MW by March 20, he said. ´We will be the first major port in the country to run entire port operations on solar energy,´ Babu said, adding VPT had spent Rs.60 crore to set up the plants. Devendra K Rai, Director, Union Ministry of Shipping, said the target is to have 135 MW of solar power projects operational by 2020 in eight major ports. He said 50 MW of wind energy projects are also planned in three ports.