India's Quest for Green Energy: Kamuthi Solar Project

On September 22, 2016, Adani Green Energy opened the world’s largest single location solar power plant in Kamuthi village in Ramanathapuram district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The 648MW power plant with an outlay of $680 million was completed in less than a year. This was a significant achievement, considering that the largest solar project in the world at a single location till then was in California, US, and it had taken 3 years to complete (Refer Exhibit I for important solar power installations around the world). Gautam Adani, the company’s chairman, said the Tamil Nadu plant "reinstates the country’s ambitions of becoming one of the leading green energy producers in the world". The Government of India had a vision to set up 100 Gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity in the country by 2022. The 648 MW project was a big leap toward achieving India’s Vision 2022.....