World's biggest solar tree record smashed

• With a PV panel surface area of 309.83 sq. m, the solar tree is formally accredited by Guinness World Records (GWR) as the biggest solar tree worldwide.

Guinness World Records has confirmed the world's largest solar tree has actually been mounted in India.

The building and construction, which has 309.83 m2 of photovoltaic panel surface area, has actually been constructed at the Centre of Excellence for Farm Machinery, Ludhiana, in Punjab by the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, which becomes part of the government's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

The framework, which has smashed the previous solar tree record of 67m2 of panel surface area, has a generation capacity of 53.6 kWp and can create an estimated 160-200kWh daily.

Harish Hirani, supervisor of the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, stated: "These solar trees have wide applications such as distributed power generation to cater [to] the requirements of various incorporated farming activities of billing e-tractors, e-power tillers, as well as EV [electric car] charging stations; running farming pumps for watering demands; solar-based cooking systems for cooking at the farm site; as well as powering the freezer needs of the farm produce, thus boosting the shelf life [of the goods]".