World's largest solar power station to come up in Madhya Pradesh with 750 Mega

Watts

The project Rewa Ultra Mega Solar is a joint venture of Solar Energy Corporation of India and MP Urja Vikas Nigam. The project will come up on a barren land.

At present, world's largest solar power project Ivanpah Solar Power Facility of 392 MW is at Mojave deserts in California, United States

The cost of generating one MW solar energy comes to around Rs 7.6 crore. The plant is expected to start generating solar energy by March 2017.

The renewable energy ministry has proposed a gross budgetary support of 𧹞m (Rs 41bn) for setting up 25 solar parks of 500 MW each and ultra mega solar power projects to add 20,000 MW green generation capacity in the next five years.

Problems of transmission in the country with losses of almost 24% and constraints in taking electricity to remote areas have seen solar power getting a boost.

India's renewable energy sector is looking at attracting $200bn in investments from several domestic and international firms.

While the country's plans to expand solar energy 30-fold to 100,000 MW in seven years could create many new jobs, the demand for huge chunks of land cumulatively larger than some of its metros has seen experts advocate a mix of large, medium and rooftop solar plants.