Uttar Pradesh Affairs
Adani commissions 50 Mw solar power plant in Chitrakoot
Adani Green EnergyLimited (AGEL) announced commissioning of 50 MW solar powerplantinChitrakoot.
The plant, Adani Chitrakoot One Limited, has a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) withUttar Pradesh Power Corporationlimited at Rs. 3.07/KWh.. With this commissioning AGELs total operational renewable capacity grows to 3,520 MW.
The company said that the plant will be connected to its state-of-the-art energy Network operation centre (ENOC) that continuously monitors and analyses performance of 80+ solar and wind Plants across diverse locations in India. With this, AGEL has an operational solar generation capacity of over 3 GW.
National and International Affairs
Gk bit : Difference between Chaff and Flares:
Both chaff & flares are defensive countermeasures deployed by using navy aircraft. The cause is to confuse radar-guided or infrared-guided anti-plane missiles fired so that they may want to be diverted.
The Chaff is composed of many small aluminium or zinc lined fibres saved on-board the plane in tubes. In case the plane feels threatened by means of any radar monitoring missiles, chaff is ejected into the turbulent wake of air at the back of the plane.
Flares on being fired grant an alternate strong IR (Infrared) source to heat-seeking anti-air missiles. Thus they are lured away from the aircraft.