World’s largest renewable energy park- 5 times bigger than Paris- now in India

An unexpected entry point to the world’s largest renewable energy park lies in a narrow airstrip devoid of an air traffic controller, with minimal infrastructure consisting of just a portable toilet and a makeshift office in a container. This remote location, nestled amidst vast stretches of barren land near the Pakistan border, serves as an unlikely gateway to the park.

The airstrip was even smaller in December 2022, when Adani group head Gautam Adani, who was then the second richest person in the world, first used a small aircraft to reach the barren area that didn’t even have a pincode and got its name from a village 80-kilometers away.

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Transforming Saline Soil into Renewable Energy Hub

The land hardly had any vegetation due to its highly saline soil, leave alone any habitation. But the area with second best solar radiation in the country after Ladakh and wind speeds five times of plains, served as an idle location for a renewable energy park.

Located just an 18-kilometer drive from the airstrip, across dusty arid terrain, lies the expansive Khavda renewable energy park developed by his group. Spanning an impressive 538 square kilometers, approximately five times the size of Paris, this site is a testament to their commitment to renewable energy.

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Adani’s Remarkable Transformation of Khavda

When Adani first landed at Khavda, he joked if anyone could even find a mosquito in the area, his executives said.

But since then, his group has not just laid solar panels that will convert sun rays into electricity and wind mills to harness wind blowing at the speed of 8 meters per second, but also built colonies for workers, put up desalination plants to make saline water pumped out of 700 meters below ground portable and utilities such as mobile phone repair shops.

Adani Green Energy Ltd, India’s largest renewable energy company, will invest about ₹1.5 lakh crore to generate 30 megawatts of clean electricity at Khavda in Gujarat’s Kutch, it’s Managing Director Vneet Jaain said.

“We have just now commissioned 2,000 MW (2 GW) of capacity at Khavda and plan to add 4 GW in the current fiscal (financial year ending March 2025) and 5 GW every year thereafter,” he said.

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