Madhya Pradesh will house world's largest 750 Mega Watts(MW)
solar power station in Rewa district.
"Global tenders for commissioning the solar
power station in an area over 1,500 hectares at Bandwar region in Gudh tehsil
of Rewa, will be invited shortly. if all goes well, the plant will
start generating solar energy by March 2017.
The project - Rewa Ultra Mega Solar - is a joint
venture of Solar Energy Corporation of India and MP Urja Vikas Nigam, where in
both parties have 50 per cent stake,
The project will come up on
barren government land and one MW power generation needs two hectares tract of
land.the cost of generating one MW
solar energy comes to around Rs 7.6 crore.
At present, world's largest solar power project
- Ivanpah Solar Power Facility of 392 MW - is at Mojave deserts in in
California, United States,
In February last year, Narendra Modi, as BJP's
prime ministerial candidate, inaugurated Asia's largest solar power project at
Neemuch.
As per reports, Welspun's solar power project in
Neemuch, some 400 km from here, had come up at a cost of around Rs 1,100 crore
on 305 hectares of land.
Courtesy: Economic Times