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Inside India’s humongous solar plant

David Reid
Features correspondent
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Kamuthi, in India’s Tamil Nadu, is one of the world’s largest solar power plants. BBC Click's David Reid discovers its stunning scale – as well as some unusual cleaning robots.

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For a plant as big as Kamuthi, occasional cloud cover is less of a problem 

Huge facility

See the scale of Kamuthi – covering 10 sq km or 2,500 acres – as well as the design of the s up close.

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Rotating cleaning robots roam over the s in hypnotic movements

Spotless cleaning

Learn why the rotating robots were installed.

The Kamuthi solar power plant
The Kamuthi solar power plant

Kamuthi’s 2.5 million photovoltaic s produce 648 megawatts (MW) of power, supplying an estimated 750,000 people

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The Indian government aims to build eight times the country’s current solar capacity in five years – it may be India’s fastest growing business