ICYMI: World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Wrecked by Storm Just Before Grand Launch (VIDEO)
The world’s largest floating solar power plant, located at Omkareshwar Dam in Madhya Pradesh, India, was obliterated by a storm on April 9, 2024. , just days before its scheduled grand inauguration.
The ambitious project faced the wrath of nature as strong winds reaching speeds of up to approximately 31 miles per hour tore through the installation, uprooting and severely damaging the high-tech solar panels that floated on the backwater of the dam.
This floating solar plant claimed to be the largest globally, represents a joint venture between the Madhya Pradesh Government and the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), according to Lokmat Times.
“Omkareshwar Dam is built on the Narmada river. This is our hydel project and in this, we produce energy from water, but it is spread over about 100 square kilometers [38.6 square miles], there is a very large water body where the water level remains normal,” said Sanjay Dubey, Renewable Energy Department Principal Secretary.
A 600 MW floating solar project promised to significantly bolster the power generation capacity of the state. However, this ambitious experiment ended in a spectacular failure.
The project was supposed to be the world’s largest floating solar PV plant, but instead, it’s become a stark reminder of the limits of renewable energy and the dangers of prioritizing grand ambitions over practical realities.
🚨🇮🇳 Madhya Pradesh, India
Storm damages Worlds largest floating Solar Panel Farm.
If it’s not hail destroying Solar Panels then it’s storms – but sure keep thinking these things will help ‘make the weather better’. pic.twitter.com/WrK2XRCvCO
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) May 4, 2024
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K. Kaiser
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What else could one expect ?
Most of such “inventions” are instigated (and funded) by folks that have never been anywhere near an ocean storm.
K.K.
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Tom O
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Strong winds? 31 mph is considered strong winds? I take it they don’t have thunderstorms in that area very often or at all! What would have happened if those were 70 mph gusts? Talk about lack of real world considerations!
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VOWG
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Really, people are getting dumber by the day, maybe even by the hour. Good grief.
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Tom
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Green energy is the Titanic of the 21st century.
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Tom O
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Actually, I don’t think so. I think it is more akin to television – lots of promise and determined to be used as a means to control our every thought and movement.
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