Comments on: India To Set Up Ultra Mega Solar Power Plant — 4,000 MW Capacity

By: m.p singh

m.p singh — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:37:00 +0000

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– Bareilly National
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By: Carmen Johnson

Carmen Johnson — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:31:00 +0000

thanks

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 02:22:00 +0000

Been there.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:26:00 +0000

Go. Before it’s all turned into museums and Starbucks.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:25:00 +0000

You might have trouble finding much in the way of roadblocks put in the way of renewables by environmentalists.

Certainly you’ll be able to find some attempts, basically on the part of a small number of people, but not a lot of results.

Most of the resistance I’ve seen for renewable projects comes down to NIMBY. That was certainly the case for Cape Wind, “just don’t put where I can see it”. And even then it wasn’t a group of environmentalists but a group of locals, some who would call themselves pro-renewables.

There was a considerable amount of resistance to wind and solar in the desert but when the feds worked with environmental groups to identify the best places, the least environmentally damaging, most of the resistance fell away.

By: Burnerjack

Burnerjack — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 22:06:00 +0000

Ya just gotta love websites like this. Good discussion, very illuminating. Thanks Bob (yet again!). How is it THEY can do this, but in the US, some environmentalists of one flavor or another throw up road block after road block?
One thing I have noticed flying in the US, when flying in to most of the high population cities where sun is abundant, such as the LA area, for example, is the enormous amount of commercial rooftop acreage. It would seem to be a natural move to lease these rooftops for Solar. Added income for the building owners and lower AC loads as the building is now in the shadow of the panels. Great inputs from all!

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:14:00 +0000

We all haven’t had the wonderful experience of traveling extensively through India for long periods of time. Like you have. And those of us that have gone to India probably have only seen airports, hotels, offices, and the short stretches of land that must be traveled to get between the three. Much like most of our experiences here in the USA.

By: Mridul Chadha

Mridul Chadha — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:29:00 +0000

I think project will be located at a dried salt lake bed near a city called Sambhar. The land is owned by Hindustan Salts Limited, one of the companies in joint venture.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:17:00 +0000

Here’s a land use map of India. Rajasthan is in the northwest, much of the tan, unproductive land. Camels and goats and not many of them. More of the desert extends to the state below, Gujarat which has also installed a lot of solar.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:04:00 +0000

There’s a lot of desert and a lot of very non-productive land which is semi-desert.

By: Wayne Williamson

Wayne Williamson — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:48:00 +0000

Yeah, that was my thought…but low and behold, they actually have a big desert…It was on the other 4GW article…

By: Burnerjack

Burnerjack — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:04:00 +0000

No, with a population of 1,237 Billion people, I assumed most of it was kinda crowded. I suppose there are areas of the countryside not so crowded, but I would have also assumed that that land was important for agriculture to feed all those people.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:46:00 +0000

Haven’t been to India, eh?

By: Burnerjack

Burnerjack — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:35:00 +0000

Good thing India is so sparsely populated. I really didn’t think they could spare the real estate…

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 01:57:00 +0000

Yes. I hope more details are made available and that it turns out they are doing more with their land.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 01:50:00 +0000

One has to watch the size of wind and solar farms. Sometimes the area stated is much larger than the actual installation. There may be room for other projects in the same space.

Probably better to start with some number for watts per sq meter for the panels and add in some extra area for the walkway between racks. Work up from the bottom rather than try to take it off existing projects.
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Adding – with wind farms the total area can be quite misleading. Sometimes turbines are spaced out over a large amount of farmland so wind farm size is large. Sometimes they’re actually quite close together, strung out on a ridge line so if one measured the total area it would be small.

By: Ronald Brakels

Ronald Brakels — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 01:47:00 +0000

Sorry, yes, I see where I went wrong. Thanks for correcting me. Thirty-six square miles is a lot of space. With 15% efficient first solar thin film panels and at that lattitude they should be able to fit about 14 gigawatts of capacity in there. I guess not all the land is being used for the solar farm.

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 01:27:00 +0000

I get 4,046.86 square meters to an acre, not 405.

By: Ronald Brakels

Ronald Brakels — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 01:12:00 +0000

Let me check this. Let’s see, 405 square meters to an acre, times that by 23,000 gives 9,315,000 square meters. There’s a million square meters to a square kilometer, so that gives about 9.3 square kilometers for the first gigawatt of solar. Assuming all 4 gigawatts cover roughly the same area that would total about 37 square kilometers. Does that look right to you?

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:54:00 +0000

From the link in the article above http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-09-21/news/42272580_1_solar-power-power-purchase-agreements-power-development

“The project would 23,000 acre of land out of which 18,000 acre would be provided by Hindustan Salts limited. The tariff is expected to be competitive.”

23,000 acres equates to 35.9375 square miles. (See http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_square_miles_equals_23000_acres)

35.9 is fairly close to 36. Or 6×6 miles