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The solar power generation (renewable energy) is the cleanest form of energy generation method and the solar power plant has a very long life and also is maintenance-free, but due to the high unpredictability of the generated solar power due to dynamically changing environmental factors it cannot be used as the reliable source of power. This prevents the maximum utilization of solar energy. In this project we are designing the artificial neural network model to predict the power generated depending on the various environmental factors like visibility, cloud cover (sky cover), etc. the intensity of the incident of the solar radiation decreases and thus the plant is not able to work at its rated capacity. We use Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with Feed Forward Back Propagation (FFBP) technique and predicted the percentage of the maximum plant capacity which will be generated by considering the environmental factors like temperature, pressure, distance to solar noon, day light, sky cover, visibility, humidity, wind speed, wind direction and compared our results with available data and find quite encouraging results.