A Coal Billionaire is Building the World’s Biggest Clean Energy Plant – Five Times the Size of Paris – Slashdot

Adani is executive director of Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL). He’s also the nephew of Gautam Adani, Asia’s second richest man, whose $100 billion fortune stems from the Adani Group, India’s biggest coal importer and a leading miner of the dirty fuel. Founded in 1988, the conglomerate has businesses in fields ranging from ports and thermal power plants to media and cements. Its clean energy unit AGEL is building the sprawling solar and wind power plant in the western Indian state of Gujarat at a cost of about $20 billion. Source: A Coal Billionaire is Building the World’s Biggest Clean Energy Plant – Five Times the Size of Paris – Slashdot