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| Indian workers install solar panels at the Gujarat Solar Park at Charanka in Patan district, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) from Ahmadabad, India, on Saturday, April 14, 2012. Gujarat state Chief Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the 200 megawatt solar power park, along with other solar projects totaling 600 megawatts of power, on Thursday. (AP Photo) |
New Delhi.
The west Indian state of Gujarat is flipping the switch on Asia’s largest solar
power field, as just part of its 600 megawatt solar energy addition to India’s
power grid.
The Gujarat
Solar Park, spread across a desolate swath of desert, accounts for 214 MW of
photovoltaic solar capacity, making it larger than China’s 200 MW Golmud Solar
Park.
The project
gives a serious boost to India’s renewable energy ambitions.
India aims
for solar power to account for 3 percent of national capacity — or 1,000 MW —
by 2013. Overall, it wants renewables to make up 15 percent of capacity by
2020, from 6 percent today.
Gujarat
environment chief S.K. Nanda says the state is ideal for solar because of its
sparsely populated desert in the north.
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