Gujarat Hints India’s Largest Solar Park

The bottlenecks for the development of park are likely to be less as the state has already procured the land identified for the project. The project will be able to move at a rapid pace. Government officials also reportedly said that no separate environmental clearance would be required either.

The sun-borne state of India, Gujarat is dressing to set up what could be country’s largest solar park in the state.

Gujarat Chief Minister, Vijay Rupani, while addressing media, said that along the coast of Gulf of Khambat the government is planning to setup a 5 Gigawatt solar power park in the state. Hot on the heels, a wind power park of 200 megawatt is also hinted to come up.

The bottlenecks for the development of park are likely to be less as the state has already procured the land identified for the project. The project will be able to move at a rapid pace. Government officials also reportedly said that no separate environmental clearance would be required either.

The solar park in Gujarat would be at par with the similar ones operational or under construction in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka. The projects in these states have seen some of the lowest tariff bids in India’s solar power history.

The concept of solar power park in India was introduced by the state of Gujarat. Even before the central government hold the first national-level solar power auction the state developed its Charanka solar park in Santanpur, Charanka.

At the time of the inauguration of Charanka Solar Park, the operational capacity was 300 megawatts and was the largest solar park of the time. According to some reports, the capacity of the park could now be increased to around 700 Megawatts.

With the cumulative capacity of 1,200 megawatts, Gujarat has already approved the development of two more solar parks in the state. All these developments in the field of solar energy are to fulfil the state’s capacity target of 7 gig watts by FY 20121-22.

Source: Clean Technica