The Adani Group is building the world’s largest hybrid renewable energy park right in the middle of a desert, in Khavda, Gujarat.
The announcement was made by the founder and chairman of the group, Gautam Adani on Tuesday (18 July) while addressing shareholders at Adani Enterprises’ annual general meeting.
Spread over 72,000 acres, the park will produce 20 GW of green energy, once operational. The project will be developed by Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL), the renewable energy arm of the diversified Adani portfolio.
Elaborating on the plans to build the hybrid power bank, Adani said, “It will be the most complex and ambitious project that we have ever executed. And we intend to build it faster than any project in our execution history”.
The hybrid power plant harnesses the potential of renewable energy by resolving intermittency of the generation and provides a more reliable solution to meet the rising power demand. This is done by deploying cutting-edge technologies to harness the power of the sun and enable cost effective power extraction from the wind resources.
World’s Largest Solar-Wind Producer
Earlier during FY 022-23, the group operationalized 2.14 GW solar-wind hybrid plants in Rajasthan, India’s first and world’s largest solar-wind hybrid cluster.
The hybrid cluster consists of four plants having a capacity of 390 MW, 600 MW, 450 MW and 700 MW respectively. All three of these hybrid energy generation assets are located in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.
With this, AGEL’s operating wind-solar hybrid portfolio has now reached 2,140 MW, continuing to be the largest in the world.
The newly operationalized solar-wind hybrid portfolio of 2,140 MW deploys latest technologies like bifacial solar PV modules and horizontal single-axis tracking (HSAT) technology to capture maximum energy from the sun as well as technologically advanced wind turbine generators leading to a high hybrid capacity utilisation factor (CUF) of 35.5 per cent.