India announces plans for world's biggest solar farm. And get this, it will be done by 2017
World's largest solar power station to come up in Madhya PradeshBHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh will house world's largest 750 Mega Watts(MW) solar power station in Rewa district, state's energy minister Rajendra Shukla said today.
"Global tenders for commissioning the solar power station in an area over 1,500 hectares at Bandwar region in Gudh tehsil of Rewa, will be invited shortly," Shukla told PTI.
He said that if all goes well, the plant will start generating solar energy by March 2017.
The project - Rewa Ultra Mega Solar - is a joint venture of Solar Energy Corporation of India and MP Urja Vikas Nigam, where in both parties have 50 per cent stake, he added.
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It won't be the largest, (though it will be larger than the plant that is currently on top of the list). There are a number of plants in progress at roughly that size that are ahead of it. Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park in Pakistan, for example, is planned for 1,000 MW and is already under construction. They have something of a head start as you can see below.
If it's ever the largest in the world, it will be for a brief period IF a couple plants that are planned to be larger lag in their construction and much larger plants get delayed.
It also won't be "done by 2017". It will have the first 250 MW phase online by that time (originally slated for August 2016).
It's useful to note that India plans for lots of plants of this size or larger, including a couple ten times this size or more (including their own module manufacturing capacity). I love the naming convention (they often use "ultra mega" in the name).
At present, world's largest solar power project - Ivanpah Solar Power Facility of 392 MW - is at Mojave deserts in California, United States, the minister informed.
The article repeated this as a caption for a photo of a PV plant.
Ivanpah isn't a PV plant (it's concentrating solar thermal)... and the minister somehow left out four U.S. PV plants in the 500 MW range that all came online in the last year or so.
