Something About Solar Energy in India.

Solar power in India.

Upcoming world's largest solar power plant in India
A 4,000MW Ultra Mega Green Solar Power Project (UMPP) is being built near Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan. Upon Completion, it would be world's largest Solar Power Plant. It is expected to be built in 4 phases, with the first phase likely to be commissioned by the end of 2016 with 1,000 MW capacity

At present world's largest solar power plant
Currently 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, located in California's Mojave Desert, is the world's largest solar thermal power plant project in operation.

World's largest solar steam system.

Shri Sai Baba Sansthan Trust in Maharashtra has the world's largest solar steam system.

The system is used to cook 50,000 meals per day for pilgrims visiting the shrine, resulting in annual savings of 100,000 kg of cooking gas and has been designed to generate steam for cooking even in the absence of electricity to run the feed water pump for circulating water in the system. The project to install and
commission the system was completed in seven months and the system has a design life of 25 years.

Largest Solar power plant in India.

The Welspun Solar MP project, the largest solar power plant in India set up at a cost of Rs. 1,100 crore on 305 hectares of land.

Welspun Solar Madhya Pradesh Project India's largest solar power plant.

Leading state in Solar power generation in India

Gujarat. Leader in solar power generation in India and Asia's biggest solar park.

Gujarat has been a leader in solar power generation and contributes 2/3rd of the 900 MW of photovoltaics in the country.The State has commissioned Asia's biggest solar park at Charanka village. The park is already generating 2 MW solar power out of its total planned capacity of 500 MW. The park has been functioning on a multi-developers and multi-beneficiaries paradigm and has been awarded for being the most innovative and environment-friendly project by the CII Confederation of Indian Industry.

Asia's biggest solar park in India

Asia's biggest solar park at Charanka village of Gujarat.