A 19-second clip showing a floating solar panel plant apparently from Gujarat is viral on social media. Several users on social media have praised the BJP government in Gujarat for setting up the same.
X user இந்துத்துவம் 
(@VVR_Krish) shared the above-mentioned clip on July 23 with a caption in Tamil which hailed the development under ‘Gujarat Model’ and praised the BJP government in the state.
This post has received around 3.5 Lakh views and has been retweeted more than 200 times. (Archive)
வளர்ச்சி நோக்கி குஜராத் மாடல்!!
குஜராத்தில் பாஜக அரசு ஏற்ப்படுத்தி இருக்கும் Floating Solar plant…!!
வருடம் தோறும் மின் கட்டணத்தை உயர்த்தினால் அது திராவிட மாடல்..! pic.twitter.com/8nlEc1ywBc
— இந்துத்துவம்
In another case, Instagram user @sundar jani posted the same video on June 19, claiming that the clip showed a solar power plant in Bhuj in Gujarat.
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Fact Check
To verify the authenticity of this claim, we broke down the viral clip into multiple keyframes and ran a reverse image search on some of them. This led us to an Instagram post from June 16, which featured the viral clip. This post was made by the page @shanghai_views, and the caption mentioned, “Solar panels meet the sea, rice paddies climb the mountains —China’s innovative farming & energy solutions are changing the game!”
This indicates that the viral clip showing the solar plant is actually footage from China.
We found another Instagram post made by the Chinese media outlet China Youth Daily on July 7, which also featured the same viral clip and the caption accompanying the video indicated that the clip was from China.
Further, while checking if any official Chinese sources had shared this video, we came across a Facebook post from Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning dated July 3, 2025. She mentioned in the caption, “From city grids to coastal waters, China is tapping the sun to power a greener future”.
We also checked if there were any news reports about a floating solar power plant in Gujarat, and found a 2023 report by the Times of India about floating solar panels being installed on the Narmada Canal. We looked for the visuals of the plant and found a video on CNBC Bajar’s YouTube channel, posted in September 2024. The visuals are not in any way similar to those seen in the viral clip.
Below is a comparison where it can be clearly seen that while the floating solar power plant in Gujarat is over a canal, the one in China is clearly on a larger water body and is of much bigger scale.
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