At the helm of this $20 billion endeavor is Pranav Adani, the 30-year-old executive director of Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL) and nephew of billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani. His namesake Adani Group struck it rich moving coal but is now seemingly moving hard into sustainable energy sources.

There’s an unmistakable irony that one of the world’s largest clean energy plants is being spearheaded by a business empire that made its fortune dealing in fossil fuels. The Adani Group built Gautam Adani’s $100 billion net worth by becoming India’s biggest coal importer and a leading miner of the polluting rock. Yet now, the same conglomerate is staking its future on sustainables through this unprecedented solar and wind installation.

The Khavda Renewable Energy Park, as it’s called, will cover over 200 square miles of Gujarat’s barren landscape when completed in 2029. AGEL claims it’ll be the biggest power plant on Earth regardless of energy source, cranking out enough juice to keep 16 million Indian homes switched on.

Source: Tech Spot