Charanka Solar Park Gujarat, India
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India aims to build 1 terrawatt of global solar power – four times the current worldwide total – and become a 100% electric vehicle nation by 2030. Those are great ambitions, but they still far short from what is needed for a true energy transformation away from coal, writes Dénes Scala of Lancaster University. Courtesy of The Conversation.
One of the world’s largest solar power projects has just been completed in southern India. At 648 megawatts (MW), the Kamuthi solar plant can generate as much electricity as most coal or nuclear power stations.
This is great news. But it must be only the start of an unprecedented Indian solar boom. For the country to achieve its Paris climate pledges it will need hundreds more Kamuthis.
India has become one of the big names in renewable energy in recent years. The country championed the International Solar Alliance, an initiative launched a year ago at COP21 in Paris which is expected to be ratified at the follow-up COP22 […]
May the sun shine on all of us and especially Stephen for tirelessly digging to help keep us better informed. Gratitude to all those who are awake and working for good without recognition. As a former solar installer, i can say solar PV is not a panacea as it is limited in collection per day, inefficient conversion of available irradiance to actual output & uses petroleum energy input to manufacture..but it is a step in the direction of using the most abundant energy source readily available & gets us thinking differently.