The Dhirubhai Ambani Solar Park at Dhursar village near

Pokhran Pokhran (official spelling Pokaran; ) is a town and a municipality located 112 km east of Jaisalmer city in the Jaisalmer district of the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is situated in the Thar Desert region. Surrounded by rocks, sand and ...

in the

Jaisalmer district Jaisalmer district is the largest district in the Indian state of Rajasthan, and the third largest district in India. Located in Marwar (Jodhpur Division), the city of Jaisalmer is the administrative headquarters of the district. It is around ...

of Rajasthan is a 40

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(MW_AC)

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, set up in 129 days and commissioned in 2012. It is one of a large number of solar parks expected to be built in a 35,000 km² area of the

Thar Desert The Thar Desert (), also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of in India and Pakistan. It is the world's 18th-largest desert, and the world's 9th-large ...

that has been reserved for solar power projects. The solar park was named after the late Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of

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, and was constructed using 500,000

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(CdTe) modules by

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, and covers an area of . India has a target of developing of solar power plants, and an additional is expected in local generation, bringing the total to by 2022. Speaking at the dedication of the park, the new and renewable energy minister hoped that Rajasthan alone would exceed 22,000 MW by then. A solar thermal project at the same location has been synchronised in November, 2014.Reliance Power commissions world's largest solar CSP project in Rajasthan
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