The Centre has given its nod to Tangedcoto set up a 500MW solar park in Ramanathapuram district.
This will be the first such park to be set up by a government-owned power distribution company in the country.
The proposed solar park will be set up at Naripaiyur village in Kadaladi, a coastal town in Ramanathapuram district.
Ramanthapuram, Sivaganga and Tuticorin are the three districts with maximum solar radiation in Tamil Nadu.
As per Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA), Ramanathapuram has 5.67 Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) and due to this the plant load factor (PLF) is high.