Agencies approved to produce power by harnessing Solar Energy at Largest Solar Energy Park in India i.e Charanka Solar Park

The aim of this India’s Largest Solar Energy Park i.e Charanka Solar Park is to produce 500 MW power through Solar Energy technology. Its large area and capacity to produce 500Mw Energy differentiates it to glaze as one of its own kind Largest Solar Energy Park in the world. It will be contributing enough to achieve the targets of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission of India which targets to create an enabling policy framework for the deployment of 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022 in India. The land space acquired for development of this Largest Solar Energy Park is allotted among the agencies approved to produce power by harnessing Solar Energy for the Solar Energy Park. GMR Gujarat Solar Power Pvt Ltd (25 MW), Sun Edison Energy India Ltd (25 MW), Alex Astral Power Pvt Ltd (25 MW), Roha Energy Pvt Ltd (25 MW), Emami Cement Ltd (10 MW), Azure Power (5 MW). Kiran Energy (20 MW) are some of the allottees that will set up power plants at the park. Larsen and Tubro’s Construction Division, Mumbai Electrical and Gulf Projects Operating Company has been engaged by Kiran Energy to set the 20 Mw Solar Power Producing plant at Patan. The solar park will make power accessible to poor and will help reduce emission to a great extent. The government is committed to employ local villagers at the park and will help improve skills required for the solar power sector. The commissioning of this Charanka Solar Park at Patan will generate about 5,000 direct jobs locally for works such as assembling, electrical connection and cleaning of panels and development of green belt area around the site.

In addition to focus on Patan, development of solar power units at high potential areas of Banas Kantha and Kutchh districts are also under consideration by Gujarat government. The Gujarat government has signed power purchase agreements with 80 firms for solar power worth 932 Mw. which will come up in the due course of time. The initiatives of Gujarat government for buying 932-MW of power under its new solar power policy, is a remarkable move in the solar power sector of India. In the solar energy sector in Gujarat, a group of industrialists have launched a  Solar Energy Association  that will address some of the key issues relating to the land acquisition, share holding pattern and changes in the terms of PPAs signed with the government.