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Clean Power Published on  March 24th, 2013 |  by Zachary Shahan 11 India’s Solar Canals Reposted from Solar Love : I recently ran across this awesome image  from Greenpeace International  over on Google+: Luckily, the Google+ share also included a link to an Indian business site that had more details.  The Hindu Business Line  writes : Close on heels of commencing use of wastelands in northern districts and rooftops in towns and cities, Gujarat is set to potentially use the existing 19,000 km-long network of Narmada canals across the State for setting up solar panels to generate power. The Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, will inaugurate the first of a series of this project, known as Canal Solar Power Project, when he launches a 1 megawatt (mw) pilot project, which is already commissioned, on Narmada branch canal near Chandrasan village of Kadi taluka in Mehsana district on Tuesday.   However, this can’t be new, since the dat...