Kamuthi Solar Power Project

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Kamuthi Solar Power Project is a solar photovoltaic power generating station at Kamuthi, 90 km from Madurai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. This project has been commissioned by Adani Power. With a generating capacity of 648 MW at a single location it is billed as the world's largest single location solar project. The project was completed on 21 September 2016 with an investment of around ₹ 4,550 crore. The solar plant consists of 2,500,000 solar modules and 27,000 metres of structures. It consist of 576 inverters and 154 transformer and almost 7500 km of cables. Panels occupy 1270 acres of land. 30,000 tonnes of galvanised steel were used. About 8500 personnel worked on average installing about 11 MW in a day to set up the plant in stipulated time.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamuthi_Solar_Power_Project
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Coordinates:   9°19'55"N   78°23'37"E

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