There's something odd with this article: "(...) a capacity to produce 648 MW of electricity (...) built at a cost of $679 m(...) The solar power plant has the capacity to generate electricity sufficient for about 150,000 homes"

Then we have Ivanpah solar power plant: cost $2.2 Billions, theoretical capacity 392 MW but only output 40% its first year of operation and about 66% at best since. This while burning 525 million cubic feet of natural gas a year (almost twice the amount initially allowed).

Then we have the former biggest solar plant in Spain: combined solnovas, PS10, PS20 and AZ20 for a grand total of 300MW of electricity enough to power 180,000 homes.

So a plant in Tamil Nadu built for around 1/4 of the cost with almost twice the output of Ivanpah but only enough power for 30,000 less homes than the Spain plant which has an output lower than Ivanpah's.

These numbers do not add up, with a PR smell floating around and politics/business/marketing as usual.

Ivanpuh is much older, the price for new equipment has gone way down + construction costs are much less in India.

Nope.

http://www.ecowatch.com/india-solar-market-2118202661.html

Unless you believe every news outlet bought into the story. We have free press you know.