Bhagwati Cold Storage - 250 kW Industrial
Bhagwati Agro Cold Chain Dindori Road, Nashik 45 days on site
A 250 kW hybrid-layout installation split between shed roof and adjacent ground area, feeding a continuously running cold chain facility.
250 kW
System capacity
3.65 lakh units
Annual generation
₹22.4 L lower
Monthly bill impact
71%
Bill reduction
What happened to the electricity bill
Figures are this client's actual averages before and after commissioning. Your own result will depend on your tariff, consumption pattern and roof - it will not be identical to this.
The challenge
Cold storage compressors run around the clock, so the daytime solar could only ever cover part of the load - and the shed roof alone was not large enough for 250 kW.
What we did
We split the array between the shed roof and 0.4 acres of unused adjacent land, using bifacial modules on the ground-mount section to pick up reflected ground albedo.
Project notes
Cold storage is a 24-hour load, so solar can never take the bill to zero. What it can do is shave the daytime portion - which at this facility was close to 55% of total consumption.
The bifacial ground-mount section is generating roughly 8% above the equivalent monofacial layout, which was enough to justify the slightly higher module cost.