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Soaking up the sun in India ’ s Thar Desert is Bhadla Solar Park , consisting of 14,000 acres of colocated solar power plants , with a consistent generation of 2.25GW ( Bhadla now totals about 2.7GW of capacity since recent additions ).

The park benefits from nearperfect conditions , with the Rajasthan region receiving 5.72kWh / m2 of solar irradiation each day on average . Additionally , the solar farm benefits greatly from 300 sunny days per year .

Bhadla , like some of the other large solar farms on this list , was ordered by a number of businesses to auction off specific amounts of solar capacity . For instance , the Solar Energy Corporation of India held an auction for 25MW capacity , and 27 businesses all made bids . energydigital . com 101