NTPC CMD Arup Roy Choudhury laid the foundation stone of Solar Thermal Air Conditioning System at NETRA, the research and technology development division of NTPC.

The plant is intended to test the efficacy of Solar Thermal Air conditioning system which has been designed and engineered in-house by NETRA. The plant has two large size duel axis tracking Solar Dish which generate saturated steam to operate Vapour Absorption Machine that produces 50 TR of air-conditioning. The plant also envisages an integrated cold thermal energy storage which takes care of air-conditioning need during lean solar period.