Maruti Suzuki, Bentley Motors add more solar

Automobiles manufacturer Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (BOM:532500) has recently laid the foundation stone for what will be its second grid based solar power station, a 5-MW plant at its Gurugram facility in India's Haryana state.

The company, which is a majority owned unit of Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp (TYO:7269), expects to invest about INR 240 million (USD 3.4m/EUR 3.1m) in the carport style project. It plans to have the photovoltaic (PV) park up and running in fiscal 2019/20.

Maruti Suzuki India’s first grid based solar power plant was built in 2014 at Manesar, with a capacity of 1 MW and was expanded to 1.3 MW in 2018.

Meanwhile, another carmaker, UK-based Bentley Motors, has installed a 2.7-MW solar carport at its factory headquarters in Crewe. The company that deployed the system, FlexiSolar, says that it is the UK’s largest ever solar carport. The project covers 1,378 car parking spaces and an area of 16,426 square metres.

When announcing the project at the start of May, Bentley Motors said that thanks to the new plant all electricity used to manufacture every Bentley is solar or certified green.

(INR 10 = USD 0.143/EUR 0.129)

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