The Adani Renewable Energy Park in northern India is unique for several reasons. First, it is a hybrid clean energy project that will harvest electricity from both solar panels and wind turbines. Second, it will be the largest such facility in the world when complete. Third, it will have a nameplate capacity of 30 GW — the Three Gorges Dam in China produces a mere 22.5 GW.
At the present time, 70% of all the electricity in India comes from thermal generating stations that burn either coal or methane gas. That’s why India is the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide pollution in the world today, behind only China and the United States. But the country plans on havingWhen completed, the Adani hybrid solar and wind project will be about as large as Singapore, spreading out over 726 square kilometers .
The industrial city of Mundra is about 200 kilometers away from where the hybrid solar and wind park is being built. That is where the Adani Group is manufacturing the solar and wind energy components needed for the project. Today, factories there can build 4 gigawatts of solar modules and 1.5 gigawatts of wind turbines per year.
At a little over 45,000 square kilometers , the Kutch district is as big as Denmark and is India’s largest district. Virmani said there is enough land in Kutch for various renewable energy projects, but he fears that dairies and other local businesses in the region might be impacted by large scale renewable energy projects. “It has to be in the context of not compromising on another economy,” he said.Indian companies also have big plans for making green hydrogen.