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Indian firms build their own solar plants to beat power shortage
Published Tue, Nov 4, 2014 · 09:50 PM
Mumbai
FED up with constant electricity cuts and government-enforced "power holidays", Indian IT firm ValueLabs has turned to the sun beaming down on its head office for help.
In July, it finished building a 13 megawatt solar plant - enough to power 6,000 homes - to keep the lights on and computers humming for more than 3,000 employees at its base in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.
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