While Justin Trudeau approves pipelines in Canada and police forces faces off against anti-pipeline protesters in Standing Rock, North Dakota, India has gone ahead and built the world's biggest solar power plant.

The Kamuthi Solar Power Project in Tamil Nadu has a 648 megawatt capacity — or enough to power 150,000 homes — topping the 550 megawatts of power produced by California's Topaz Solar Farm.

The Kamuthi facility has 2.5 million solar panels which are cleaned daily by solar-powered robots.

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Built in eight months at the cost of US$679 million, the Kamuthi facility has 2.5 million solar panels. The panels are cleaned daily by solar-powered robots. Global News compared the 2,500-acre site to the size of 60 Taj Mahals.

According to Al Jazeera, this new plant has pushed India's installed solar capacity past 10 gigawatts, which should make the country "the world's third-biggest solar market from next year onwards, after China and the U.S."