When ready in five years, the world’s largest renewable energy plant will generate 30 GW of electricity and power 16 million homes in India.Adani Green Energy, a company in India, is turning large swathes of barren land in the western state of Gujrat into the world’s largest clean energy plant. When ready in five years, the plant will be five times the size of Paris City and cater to the energy demands of a population like Switzerland, a CNN report said.
The area is a barren desert with no vegetation or wildlife, and the land barely has any utility. When ready, solar panels and wind turbines will occupy this 200 square mile of this barren landscape, and the project is expected to be visible from space as well. If the name Adani sounds familiar, it is because it was featured in a Hindenburg report in January 2023. Accused of fraud and stock manipulation, the company’s stocks tumbled and wiped off $100 billion of their value in the following weeks.. Back in India, the group is the largest importer and miner of coal. Building a clean energy plant while continuing to burn fossil fuels sounds counterintuitive, but in India’s case, they are necessary.