Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world’s biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland. “I don’t even do the math any more,” Sagar Adani told CNN in an interview last week. Adani is executive director of Adani Green Energy Limited . He’s also the nephew of Gautam Adani, Asia’s second richest man, whose $100 billion fortune stems from the Adani Group, India’s biggest coal importer and a leading miner of the dirty fuel.
the country’s largest renewable energy company, aims to provide at least 9% of that, with nearly 30 GW generated from its Khavda park in Gujarat alone. Failing to transition to renewable energy is not an option, said Adani. “There is no choice for India but to start doing things at a previously unimagined size and scale,” the 30-year-old said. That’s because energy demand is going to explode in the coming years.