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By Philippe ALFROY Khavda (India) (AFP) – Vast lines of solar panels reflect the blazing sun in India’s western deserts, a dazzling ocean broken only by bristling wind turbines. India, along its desolate border with Pakistan, is building what it boasts will be the world’s largest renewable power plant, an emblem of a determined push to boost solar energy. The Khavda plant in Gujarat state consists of some 60 million solar panels and 770 wind turbines spread over 538 square kilometres (208 square miles) — almost the size of the sprawling megacity Mumbai. In front of a wall of screens, a handfu…
