Adani Green Energy (AGEL) plans to add 3 Gigawatt (GW) or 3,000 megawatt (MW) of solar power with an investment of $1.5-2 billion by the end of this year and increase its overall capacity to 7 GW at Khavda in Gujarat.
The company recently operationalised 693 MW of renewable energy projects, taking the overall capacity to 3.7 GW at Khavda. With the latest addition, AGEL’s overall capacity has increased to 15 GW.
Spread over 538 sq km, which is almost the size of Mumbai, AGEL has laid down the blueprint for Khavda Power plant to generate 26 GW of solar and 4 GW of wind energy with an investment of ₹1.5 lakh crore by 2029.
The Khavda plant alone will generate 81 billion units of electricity, which will be enough to power 16.1 million homes and avoid 58 million tonne of carbon dioxide emissions annually.
Backward integration
As part of backward integration, Adani Group has set up a solar cell and module manufacturing capacity of 4 GW at Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone near Mundra port. The company has already started work on increasing this capacity to 10 GW, given the rising demand, said a company spokesperson.
Adani Solar, the PV unit of Adani Group, will achieve 10 GW of metallurgical grade silica-polysilicon-ingot-wafer capacity by 2027-28. It will also expand its ancillary unit production (solar glass, aluminium frames, encapsulants and backsheets) to 10 GW by 2027-28. The company has ingot-wafer capacity of 2 GW already operational.
Adani Wind, in collaboration with W2E Wind to Energy GmbH, Germany, has developed one of the most powerful onshore wind turbines of 5.2 MW, featuring a rotor diameter of 160 metre with a swept area of 20,106 sq m and a tip height of 200 metre.
