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Multi-billionaire Gautam Adani's group has constructed the world's largest renewable energy park in Gujarat's Khavda region in a remote area bordering Pakistan as it has a massive 45 GW capacity to produce electricity largely from solar energy. In December 2022, Adani, became interested in this location, which had little infrastructure at first except for a makeshift office in a container and a portable toilet. Even though it was surrounded by a lot of empty land and lacked basic amenities like a pincode, Adani saw its potential.
Initially, the land was barren, with little vegetation due to its highly saline soil and no human settlement nearby. However, boasting the second-best solar radiation in the country after Ladakh and wind speeds five times that of the plains, it presented an ideal location for a renewable energy park. An 18-km drive from the airstrip through dusty arid land is the site for his group's Khavda renewable energy park spread over 538 square kilometers (roughly five times the size of Paris).
When Adani first landed at Khavda, he joked if anyone could even find a mosquito in the area, his executives said. But since then, his group has not just laid solar panels that will convert sun rays into electricity and wind mills to harness wind blowing at the speed of 8 meters per second, but also built colonies for workers, put up desalination plants to make saline water pumped out of 700 meters below ground portable and utilities such as mobile phone repair shops.
Adani Green Energy Ltd, India's largest renewable energy company, will invest about ₹1.5 lakh crore to generate 30 megawatts of clean electricity at Khavda in Gujarat's Kutch, it's Managing Director Vneet Jaain said. "We have just now commissioned 2,000 MW (2 GW) of capacity at Khavda and plan to add 4 GW in the current fiscal (financial year ending March 2025) and 5 GW every year thereafter," he said.
Adani Group's renewable energy plans are the most ambitious by any corporate in the country which is targeting to generate 500 GW of electricity from non-fossil sources by 2030, as part of a broader plan of achieving net-zero emissions by 2070. Khavda at its peak will generate 81 billion units that can power entire nations such as Belgium, Chile and Switzerland, they said.
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