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Five out of the world’s biggest under construction solar parks, designed to accommodate total solar power capacity of 7,475 MW, are in India. When one of them Bhadla Industrial Solar Park, in Rajasthan houses solar plants to its fullest capacity of 2,225 MW, it will be the world’s biggest. When it comes to operating solar plants, India has two of the world’s top ten, says a report on emerging solar trends produced by the US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), a research body backed by a bunch of philanthropic organisations including the Rockfeller Brothers Fund and the Rockfeller Family Fund. These two are the 1,000-MW ultra mega project in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh and the Adani group’s 648-MW Kamuthi project in Tamil Nadu.