Tamil Nadu's PV power station won't hold the crown for long. India's ambitious target of installing 100 gigawatts solar tracker actuator of solar power in the next five to seven years will require a lot more of these gargantuan plants.
Some slewing drive of the larger PV power plants in development, according to GTM Research, include:
Operational U.S. solar solar damper projects include:
In Latin America, the largest solar slewing drive operational project is El Romero in Chile at 255 solar inverter megawatts DC, which is "supplying much of its output to Google's Chilean operations," solar damper according to GTM Research.
(Check out the solar tracker actuator GTM Research Utility PV Market Tracker for solar damper much solar inverter more information on utility-scale solar deployment in the U.S.)
If humanity is hoping Photovoltaic holder slewing drive to make a dent in decarbonizing solar inverter its energy mix, then solar and renewables (and nuclear) have to be installed on a much bigger scale. Replacing the thousands of gigawatts of coal- and gas-burning plants on this planet might require solar tracker actuator many thousands of projects at the scale of say, the solar tracker actuator 648-megawatt Tamil solar damper Nadu PV farm or the 290-megawatt Agua Caliente PV plant.
And for China and India, it's not so much slewing drive about global warming as it is about air pollution.
In any case, if the Photovoltaic holder aim is to solar damper grow big and fast, it makes sense to imagine solar tracker actuator huge multi-gigawatt projects that address the scale problem head-on with really big centralized solar.
The solar inverter Photovoltaic holder days of big solar in the solar damper U.S., driven by state RPS goals, would seem to be solar inverter over. In the U.S., huge centralized generation projects are more difficult to finance, permit and integrate into the grid compared to smaller Photovoltaic holder distributed generation projects. Regulatory and political headwinds also stall giga-scale solar damper projects.
But what about China, India or North Africa? Should these regions move their capital solar inverter into giga-scale projects or point capital to distributed generation and grid edge solar tracker actuator solar?
Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general of the Delhi-based nonprofit Centre for Science and Environment, responded to a Photovoltaic holder recent proposed India project with a declaration for distributed generation:
"We slewing drive have singularly failed in providing access to adequate, affordable and clean energy to a large section of the country’s population. As per the 2011 census, one-third of households -- about 400 solar tracker actuator million people -- do not have access to electricity. In solar tracker actuator rural India slewing drive, solar damper about solar tracker actuator 45 percent of households -- more than 77 million -- continue to use solar tracker actuator slewing drive kerosene to light their homes and shops. With no access to any source solar inverter of lighting, 1.2 million households go dark after sunset Photovoltaic holder. The country is solar damper paying huge solar inverter development costs because of this energy poverty. Education, health and Photovoltaic holder slewing drive economic development are getting solar tracker actuator stymied."
Bhushan asked: "In such a scenario, should we invest in large slewing drive and expensive solar power plants that will feed electricity into a leaking Photovoltaic holder grid solar inverter (the T&D loss in the country solar tracker actuator was 24 percent in 2011-12) and provide subsidized solar electricity to the rich domestic, commercial and solar damper industrial consumers? Or should we invest in small solar power plants and local (mini) grids Photovoltaic holder that can provide electricity slewing drive to the energy solar inverter poor?"
Meanwhile, people in need of electricity are solar tracker actuator getting solar slewing drive served by a growing roster of off-grid solar Photovoltaic holder companies.