India is one of the fastest growing economies in the industrialized world and its population is predicted to increase 20 to 1.5 billion by 2030 this growth will stretch India’s energy infrastructure to its limits to meet future demand.
India has an ambitious plan to boost the amount of energy it generates from renewable sources by 40 percent before the end of the decade.
Kamuthi in the southern state of Tamilnadu receives an average of more than seven hours of sunshine every day making it an ideal place to build such an epic solar farm and this monumental power plant is best seen from above two and a half million solar panels combine to generate 648 megawatts of clean energy enough to power about 150 000 homes. this is one of the largest solar power plants on earth the entire project is spread across 2500 acres of land if i have to give an analogy that land means 950 Olympic size football grounds this plant has 38 000 wild foundations and 30 000 structural steel the solar farm needs to run it close to maximum efficiency to meet demand for this anil gupta and his team must make sure nothing prevents the sunlight from reaching the panel's photovoltaic cells.
anil assigns a team of 20 grass cutters to remove tall foliage that could throw shadows over the solar panels but the hot rural location creates another big problem dust layers of dust settle on the panels each day which could impede efficiency using water jets to clean the panels takes too long and is too labor intensive so anil deploys a solution 25 giant robotic mobs each spins at 100 revolutions per minute solar powered motor moves them vertically up and down a rectangular frame attached to a row of solar panels once the section is cleaned the frame slides along automatically to the neighbouring panel it takes one mop around two hours to clean a rose solar panels 803 feet long.
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