India just unveiled one of the world’s largest solar power plants at a site in Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu. The nearly four-square-mile facility in southern India has a capacity of 648MW, according to Al Jazeera, topping the also massive Topaz Solar Farm, located in California, by about 100MW.
It took just eight months and $679 million to build the facility in Kamuthi, which features 25 million solar modules along with a team of solar-powered maintenance robots. Topaz Solar Farm by contrast took almost two years and $2.5 billion to develop. The Indian plant is expected to generate electricity needed to power 150,000 homes.
The solar power plant is another aspect of India’s extensive campaign to expand its use of renewable energy.
Last year, the country opened the first airport in the world that is powered entirely by solar power. With over 46,000 solar panels, the Cochin International Airport solar array in the southern state of Kerala is capable of producing 50,000 units of electricity per day.
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