: Photo essay: India’s solar energy boom has left some communities worried for their future #IndiaNEWS Jayaram Reddy and Hira Bano live on the edge of India’s two largest solar parks – their villages

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Photo essay: India’s solar energy boom has left some communities worried for their future #IndiaNEWS
Jayaram Reddy and Hira Bano live on the edge of India’s two largest solar parks – their villages separated by barbed-wire fences and walls from the miles of gleaming blue solar panels.Each day, they wake up to the sight of the power plants on their doorstep and wonder if their future will ever be as bright as the growth of solar energy – a key source as India switches to green energy to wean its economy off climate-heating coal.The Bhadla solar park in northwestern Rajasthan and Pavagada park in southern Karnataka states – among the world’s biggest, generating a combined 4,350 megawatts – are considered milestones in India’s goal to boost its renewable energy capacity to meet a target of 500 gigawatts by 2030, with just over half to come from solar.Separated by more than 2,000 km, Reddy and Bano are among the hundreds of local pastoralists and farmers who were asked to weigh up the potential benefits a solar park would bring – jobs, hospitals, schools, roads and water – in exchange for the land they had used all their lives.“We were told we should be grateful the government had chosen our area to build the solar park,� farmer Reddy, 65, told the Thomson Reuters...Read more

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