he 500 kWp Grid Interactive Floating Solar Power Plant in the Banasura Sagar dam, Wayanad is the first of its kind in India. The project is designed for Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and the solar photovoltaic array, inverters and 11 kV Sub-station are installed on 18 floating platforms made of Ferro cement floaters with hollow insides which are able to adapt to varying reservoir water levels by means of an innovative anchoring system. Floating solar farm floats on 6,000 square metres of water surface of the reservoir. Each floating platforms has 115 numbers of solar panels and a 33kW solar string inverter .
There is Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to control and monitor power generation and the power produced will be evacuated through an 11 kV under water cable to the 11 kV grid of KSEBL.