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Adani’s started solar in India. So should the Nats in the regions

Rather than worry about waking up with a transmission line in your back paddock, the biggest landscape threat is not renewables but climate change.

Matt EdwardsSolar Scientist

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The dream that one day the sun would power everything is increasingly becoming reality including as part of India’s renewables transition. In India, Adani is both the biggest solar developer and the biggest solar manufacturer by capacity.

A solar cell is a power-generating device that doesn’t heat up, doesn’t rotate, doesn’t move, doesn’t emit CO2, and doesn’t produce radioactive waste. Depending on how many cells are stacked together, solar can provide a few watts or a few gigawatts, in a centralised or decentralised manner.

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Matt Edwards was previously a photovoltaics scientist at UNSW, and is now the General Manager of Solar Cell Technology at Adani Solar and a Director of Coalition for Conservation.

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