The Ministry of New and (MNRE) has approved the establishment of a 4750 MW renewable energy park at Rann of Kutch in Khavada, Gujarat, for NTPC Renewable Energy Ltd. This will be India’s largest solar park. This park will be used by NTPC REL to generate green hydrogen on a commercial scale.
Highlights:
It intends to build a total of 60 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2032.
Currently, it has 66 GW of installed capacity in 70 power projects, and another 18 GW is under construction.
It also commissioned India’s largest 10 MW floating Solar Energy on the reservoir of Andhra Pradesh’s Simhadri Thermal Power Plant.
The 100 MW floating solar project at the Ramagundam Thermal Power Plant Reservoir in Telangana is in the advanced stages of implementation.
The deployment of photovoltaic panels on the surface of bodies of water is referred to as floating solar Plants.