Special report | Stellar solar

Going green could bring huge benefits for India’s economy

But it is also bringing plenty of tensions

An illustration of a white cow sitting under a solar panel.
Illustration: Alberto Miranda

Every day 1,000 trucks jostle along a single-lane road to Khavda, near India’s border with Pakistan, to build the Adani Group’s 730 square kilometre solar and wind farm. When completed, the project, with 30 gigawatts (gw) of capacity, could provide 4% of India’s current electricity consumption.

This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Stellar solar”

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