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World’s largest floating solar power plant going to be built in Khandwa, MP

The world’s largest floating solar power plant is going to be built at Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh. With an aim to increase the power generation capacity of the central state of Madhya Pradesh and address the electricity problems in the region. A floating solar power plant is going to be built in Khandwa which will generate 600 Megawatt power by 2022-23.

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The project which is said to world’s largest floating solar plant will be constructed at an estimated cost of over Rs 3,000 crore over the Omkareshwar Dam and it will help generate. Khandwa will become the only district in the state to have all three things including solar, hydel and thermal with over 4,000MW power to be produced from a single district.

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  • Madhya Pradesh Capital: Bhopal;
  • Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister: Shivraj Singh Chouhan;
  • Governor of Madhya Pradesh: Mangubhai C. Patel.

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