India, Sept. 2 -- India's power sector is witnessing a fundamental change over the last few years and renewable energy is now becoming the main source of new capacity additions in the country instead of being an add-on. The larger private developers have more recently shown a preference for greenfield, mega sites, as opposed to numerous, smaller projects, given that they expect that co-locating solar, wind, hybrid and battery storage facilities at one site would reduce land acquisition friction, share transmission infrastructure and accelerate the route from land parcel to commissioned megawatt.

In the resource-rich states of Gujarat and Rajasthan, the governments have been fighting each other for the right to have such parks, providing ...