India is building the world's largest renewable energy plant

The plant is supposed to power 18 million Indian homes.
#PlanetA #India #renewableenergy #zoomingin

[@DWPlanetA]

How much of your electricity consumption is met with renewable energy?

[@meerkathero6032]

Photovoltaic on the rooftop and the utility is Naturstrom. Would say close to 100%.

[@dennisenright9347]

100 percent. Montreal in Canada has been getting all of its electricity from renewable sources for decades. I believe that it is the largest city in the world to achieve that, and at the same time has the lowest price for renewable energy in the world.

[@MrArtist7777]

about 90% as I have a solar array and small wind turbine at my house. They power my 2 EV's also.

[@KGopidas]

​@@MrArtist7777onderful effort.. Great inspiration

[@KGopidas]

​@@dennisenright9347wonderful progress

[@foundx8426]

“size of Singapore”… that’s about 730km² (275 square miles), in case you are wondering.

[@mra.prasetio]

Thanks

[@WyattOShea]

Hmm Singapore is so much smaller than I would have guessed then damn. To add in my country is about 3 million square miles (or about 7.7 million square km) in size for comparison.

[@Dr.Kraig_Ren]

​@@WyattOSheaits width is 30km😂

[@claudemontezin911]

Well done! It's everyone of us' responsibility to make it happen. Thanks for the good news.

[@abhayrajmaurya8683]

27km × 27km size =729 squarekm

[@tvm73827]

A solar plant the size of Singapore next to a failed state filled with radicals! What could possibly go wrong??

[@chairpants]

But it's protected by one of the most secured and active borders are border patrol.

[@sriharshacv7760]

Yeah. Never though that way. Too close to border.

[@user-dv7hq2rh4g]

The good thing is that it's not a single plant, like a huge coal fired of nuclear power plant. Instead it's countless of wind turbines and solar collectors spread out over a pretty large area. Radicals won't be able to damage more than just miniscule fraction of the entire thing. So nothing's gonna happen because radicals always choose targets where they can make the biggest impact with their limited means, and this thing won't be it.

[@martinwilke1980]

"visible from space" is not a feat. What's the resolution of GoogleMaps?

[@radart6037]

Good point.

[@chairpants]

"visible from space if you zoomed in enough"

[@brownerjerry174]

I mean, is singapore visible from space?

[@MrArtist7777]

AWESOME project!!! Solar, wind and small nuclear will produce all of our energy in the next 20 years.

[@gauraverma]

Average energy consumption per household in India is about 260 kwh per month that amount to 3160 kwh per year For 18 million households that will be 5.6 billion kwh or in electrical engineering term 5.6 GWh per year Now, energy availability for renewables that can be effectively used is 50% of their capacity as Indian grid is not as advanced to withstand power fluctuations so out of total installed capacity only around 15 GWh will be used & considering significant increase in consumption, grid losses that assessment is right Renewables like solar or wind has a big downside which is the force needed to produce energy is natural & can't always be available as & when demand surge so you need alternative power source to compensate These all factors are taken in consideration

[@meerkathero6032]

That sentence makes no sense at all: ..... out of total installed capacity only around 15 GWh will be used..... You are confusing power with energy. Next is the 50% you mention above, that makes no sense. What you mean, capacity factor? Well, the capacity factor is a useless indicator for wind and solar as it only expresses the wind energy potential and solar energy potential available at the certain location but does not say anything about the quality of the powerplant itself. Maybe you mean 50 % is the maximum evacuation capacity which the grid can handle? The HV power grid in India has a quite high availability and evacuation capacity, the mentioned 50% is just a fairytale far away from reality. Of course, the transmission grid is being expanded in the region to connect the power plant and to allow for transmission across the country to where the load is.

[@adityakumarsingh3905]

Bro calm down

[@arm-np8us]

730 KM Square = 27×27km for reference

[@saharshmishra9982]

But i think it is pretty too close to a hostile neighbour who is always jealous of India's progress........ that could be fatal to India's costly infrastructure.

[@carllelendt5452]

Do not ignore wastewater (sewage) for energy source. -Utilize anaerobic sludge processes.

[@Najur.]

Wow

[@greatoutfours]

So they should

[@prohacker5086]

Signapore? I thought it was Singapore

[@KGopidas]

Time they covered more of India with similar projects

[@quaidcarlobulloch9300]

Yay!!

[@SouravBagchigoogleplus]

It will unstable the nation grid more.

[@user-dv7hq2rh4g]

So the project occupies less than 1000 m². That desert area is about 200,000 m². That means there's plenty of room for much more energy generation. If I was India, I'd make it bigger.

[@anshagnihotry1555]

Having a very big plant in a concentrated area is good but also there is loss in transmission of electricity from 1 place to other and Rajasthan's energy needs isn't this much means it will supply electricity to other states too so there could be losses

[@PalestineAuthority-ol8gj]

Yes but New Projects are Annoced India Target is 500 GW in 2030

[@dennisenright9347]

A 30 gigawatt facility operating at 100% would produce 720 gw/h daily or almost 363000 annually. It will be very interesting to see what its actual output is.

[@anirbanchatterjee2682]

Signapore

[@natureprojection6105]

But world is moving towards nuclear energy 😊

[@suryanshsagar2677]

​@AnishRaj-wh5hvmore reactors are coming up in kudankulam, Tamil nadu

[@endhunter569]

Just makes 30 nuclear plants, uses a fraction of the space

[@DWPlanetA]

If you're in for nuclear please check out our channel for multiple videos on takes on it. You could start with this if you'd like 👉 "Do we need nuclear power to stop climate change?" kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4mTYZSiZqumoK8

[@anshagnihotry1555]

Nuclear plants need a lot of input cost also they are not easy to maintain also we would depend on other nations for uranium , there has been progress in thorium plants and hopefully they will have some plants with thorium based reactor but till then this is a good step towards renewable energy

[@cameronf3343]

I’m not complaining, I’m really not, but you have to be mistaken. Ain’t a chance that a renewables park the size of a country, visible from space, will only power 18,000,000 homes in a relatively impoverished (but on the come-up) place with over a billion people. That just can’t be right. The US as one of the most power consuming countries is already 1/4 fully renewable without anything like this, and less than 1% of that is rooftop solar. How could India be so absurdly energy hungry that a plant this size will only do enough for a piece of its energy demands?

[@meerkathero6032]

India is indeed very energy hungry. Last fiscal year the production across all power sectors was 1844 TWh. China, USA and India are the top 3 (electric) energy producers. Still, the Gujarat project is impressive and 18 million households are a very considerable number.

[@AkaRyrye83]

They do have a metric shit-ton of manufacturing. Maybe this pushes up the average, depending on how it was calculated, I suppose.

[@DWPlanetA]

Hey there, you can read more about the project here (also with these figures we used in our video) 👉 apnews.com/article/cop28-energy-transition-india-renwable-energy-project-climate-change-30d82470f77ed643d1dd949bfa263399

[@MSD.2307]

U are comparing a country with 300 million people with a country with 1.4 billion people.. look at per capita consumption and you will understand which country really is the culprit.

[@Ravenxxo]

Probably due to the relatively inefficient transmission technology, high maintenance costs apart from higher electrical grid losses due to hotter climatic conditions.

[@rusbea.2279]

India is so underdeveloped that everything would be a big step forwards but I hope this guy is right and they can do something on that scale by 2026! Thing is, a populist is running the country and they do try to fluff whatever is happening and exaggerate so here’s hoping I’m wrong and they will!

[@PIG_ALLAh]

Illiterate What is bigger than this park then?

[@suryanshsagar2677]

India already has the world's largest solar park in rajasthan 😂

[@Ariana11_]

Iranian should be last to talk about development. Your country lacks infrastructure and market doesn't have a good purchasing power.

[@Ariana11_]

Calling other nation underdeveloped shows your mindset when your own is literally at crisis. Iran doesn't even have a backend resources for renewable energy, absolutely depended on petroleum products.

[@Ariana11_]

India has one of the biggest middle class in the world after usa china and your audacity to call it underdeveloped! No wonder Iranian are t rr ! St

[@mhmdnazel1]

It won't happen due to the massive corruption in the political system..I have visited India several times in the last 5 decades..other than the big cities, most of India is still post WW2 condition even today..They(the government) have the wealth, but its not benefitting the man on the street...

[@fenrir834]

That is true, some parts are worse than WW2 even, the government has major corruption problems, but things has got quite better in the few years. Maybe it is because of the increasing dept but things have certainly improved drastically since the last 5 decades.

[@mhmdnazel1]

@@fenrir834 Not really.. My hometown there has still the same narrow streets and roads.. the houses may be upgraded by the owners and the prices may have skyrocketed.. and maybe cleaner.. but its overall infrastructure is more than 50 years old..They could have become the next Singapore with all the wealth they possessed...

[@anshagnihotry1555]

There is some progress in some areas but some still have very corrupt govts example Bihar has worst govts till date, money is given to them but no one had the political will to construct things out of it

[@PalestineAuthority-ol8gj]

​@@mhmdnazel1I live in India but My Village transformed to Town Quite Developed like avg town in China in last 10 yrs

[@mhmdnazel1]

India is supposed to be a democracy right... so the people should change the government in that state. Don't tell me the central government also has no authority to clamp down on corruption.. they control the army and the police..

[@KGopidas]

Nfia could do more with cent percent rooftop solar in districts This is more a matter if identity rather than progress in renewable power!!!. Dubai i is doing better?

[@KGopidas]

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