Yamaha commissions 1,100KW solar power plant in Chennai

Yamaha has partnered with Mahindra Susten for the installation of these Rooftop Solar panels.

With this new installation, the total solar capacity of Yamaha’s Chennai plant has increased to 1,450KW.

The new rooftop solar panels cover factory building area including body shop, engine building, bus parking and walkways for the employees and visitors. The solar panels have been mounted over the walkways and the new rooftop installation would reduce CO2 emission to the extent of 1,600 tonnes per year.

“Adoption of renewable power is the need of the hour in order to save energy and provide a clean and green environment to the society. As a manufacturing company, we have a responsibility to support initiatives *that can help reduce CO2 emissions and contribute towards the objective of energy conservation. The installation of the solar power project at our plants further reinstates our commitment towards building an energy saving factory that is friendly to people and the global environment. We also would like to highlight that our Chennai factory is the least CO2 emission factory among the Yamaha Motor Group Companies around the world," Riuji Kawashima, deputy managing director, India Yamaha Motor, said.

In the first phase, Yamaha had installed 190KW and 140KW of rooftop solar panels in the spare parts building and R&D building in 2015. Yamaha’s Chennai factory, which was inaugurated in 2015, has advanced technologies for sero-water discharge and recycle and reuse of waste water and maximum use of sunlight.

Yamaha has partnered with the solar service provider, Amplus Solar for installation, operation and maintenance of solar power system at its Surajpur plant. This is one of the largest rooftop solar power plant with total capacity of 6200 KW. This project was commissioned in two phases. Phase I was inaugurated in January 2016 with generation capacity of 4000 KWp and phase II was commissioned in October 2017 with generation capacity of 2200 Kwp