The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Mangaluru Project Implementation Unit (PIU), has been producing an average of 521 units of electricity per day through rooftop solar power plants installed on its toll plazas at Talapady, Hejmady and Sasthana on the Talapady-Kundapura stretch of Kanniyakumari-Panvel National Highway 66.
Concessionaire M/s Udupi Tollway Pvt., Ltd., has installed the plants on behalf of NHAI as the green highway initiative of the Authority. Each toll plaza has been provided with 60 Kw capacity of grid connected rooftop solar plant to generate electricity, said a senior official of the NHAI. Solar plants have been erected on rooftop of the toll plaza canopy and therefore no additional space is required, he explained.
