Charanka Solar Park

Charanka Solar Park
Country	India
Location	Charanka
Status	Proposed
Commission date	2014 (expected)
Construction cost	US$280 million
Solar farm information
Type	Flat-panel PV
Power generation information
Maximum capacity	500 MW
As of 14 January 2011

Charanka Solar Park, a large thin-film photovoltaic (PV) power system, is being built on a 2,000 ha plot of land near Charanka village in Patan district, northern Gujarat. The power station will be a 500-megawatt solar power system using state-of-the-art thin film technology, and should be finished by the end of 2014.^[1] The installation will be in the Gujarat state in western India, to be built on a 2,000 hectares plot of land near the village of Charanka. The investment cost for the Charanka solar park amounts to some US$280 million.^[1] At completion the project will save around 8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide of being released into the atmosphere and around 900,000 tonnes of coal and natural gas per year.^[1]

Parameters for Tilted Solar Panels: ________________________________________ Monthly Averaged Radiation Incident On An Equator-Pointed Tilted Surface (kWh/m2/day) Lat 23.906 Lon 71.198 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual Average SSE HRZ 4.20 4.80 5.67 6.36 6.68 6.17 5.05 4.80 5.19 4.87 4.23 3.92 5.16 K 0.60 0.59 0.59 0.60 0.60 0.55 0.45 0.45 0.53 0.57 0.58 0.59 0.56 Diffuse 1.14 1.41 1.69 1.94 2.12 2.35 2.46 2.32 1.96 1.55 1.24 1.08 1.78 Direct 6.01 5.95 6.26 6.48 6.55 5.48 3.71 3.59 4.91 5.58 5.68 5.78 5.49 Tilt 0 4.07 4.77 5.60 6.24 6.65 6.14 5.03 4.69 5.12 4.83 4.09 3.82 5.09 Tilt 8 4.52 5.15 5.84 6.31 6.56 6.02 4.96 4.70 5.25 5.13 4.49 4.27 5.26 Tilt 23 5.17 5.63 6.06 6.20 6.15 5.56 4.66 4.55 5.30 5.50 5.04 4.94 5.39 Tilt 38 5.53 5.82 5.95 5.77 5.43 4.85 4.17 4.19 5.09 5.58 5.33 5.34 5.25 Tilt 90 4.39 4.12 3.41 2.47 1.92 1.80 1.78 1.91 2.69 3.70 4.08 4.39 3.05 OPT 5.59 5.82 6.06 6.31 6.65 6.14 5.03 4.70 5.31 5.58 5.36 5.44 5.66 OPT ANG 48.0 39.0 26.0 10.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.00 18.0 34.0 45.0 50.0 22.8

________________________________________ Monthly Averaged Air Temperature At 10 m Above The Surface Of The Earth (°C) Lat 23.906 Lon 71.198 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual Average 22-year Average 21.8 23.9 28.7 31.4 32.1 30.7 28.7 28.3 29.4 30.0 27.0 23.3 27.9 Minimum 16.7 18.6 23.3 26.3 27.4 27.3 26.1 25.7 26.1 25.5 22.2 18.3 23.6 Maximum 27.1 28.9 33.5 36.0 36.9 34.2 31.3 31.0 32.6 34.2 31.9 28.7 32.2

Monthly Averaged Wind Speed At 10 m Above The Surface Of The Earth For Terrain Similar To Airports (m/s) Lat 23.906 Lon 71.198 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual Average 10-year Average 3.29 3.40 3.55 3.82 4.44 4.18 3.81 3.34 3.01 2.71 2.80 3.05 3.45

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "India’s Gujarat bares 500-MW solar park to businessmen". ecoseed.org. 2011-01-03. http://www.ecoseed.org/en/business-article-list/article/1-business/8741-india%E2%80%99s-gujarat-bares-500-mw-solar-park-to-businessmen. Retrieved 2011-01-14.