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India will build the world’s largest solar plant near Sambhar lake in Rajasthan with a capacity of 4,000Mw.
The plant when put into operation will by itself increase the country’s electricity generated fourfold.
The project is being constructed by a consortium of five state-owned utilities and will supply power at a rate more than 20% below the current tariff.
CleanTechnica reports the project for which construction could start in 2016 has some serious implications for the country’s coal industry:
The capacity of 4,000 MW is very significant in the Indian context. Earlier this year a private utility, Tata Power, commissioned the first coal-fired Ultra Mega Power Plant UMPP of installed capacity 4,000 MW. Another three such projects of capacity 3,960 MW each are at various stages of construction.
Interestingly, all these projects are facing critical problems of fuel availability and, as a result, financial viability. These four UMPPs have been awarded to two companies – Tata Power and Reliance Power. These companies have filed petitions with the concerned authorities to allow them to increase the tariff of the electricity sold as they are struggling to access low-cost coal.
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Dr.Jagabandhu Mishra.
It is a good news that such a large solar power unit comes up near sambhar lake in Rajasthan,India. The solar power units may help the power requirement of India.Rajasthan is a dry state with deserts and semi deserts in streches.Mor solar and wind power will met the energy demand of India
Carmen Johnson
thanks this
Saravanan Jayavelu
Right move at the right place by the right people. Hope more such projects should evolve making Rajasthan the power state of India / world.
vetiarvi
Always used to wonder why we weren’t doing this in Rajasthan when a country like Germany is producing 24,000 MW using solar power. There’s clearly plenty of scope for India to produce far more than this in Rajasthan alone. Maybe the govt. could get a scheme to lure people who’ve stashed black money abroad to invest in such projects and give them some sort of tax rebate?
Anonymous
“The plant when put into operation will by itself increase the country’s electricity generated fourfold.” —- It will increase country’s solar power generation capacity fourfold, India’s total power generation currently is 299.251 GW.