Still a good thing, but title is misleading. 40% of India’s electricity does not come from non-fossil fuel sources. Instead, 40% of their installed capacity is non-fossil-fuel based. There’s a big difference because of the expected capacity factor of wind farms and solar farms vs fossil fuel plants. Even if 40% of your installed capacity is solar, with a capacity factor of 50%, you may be getting only 20% of your Joules from solar (fossil fuel plants generally have very high capacity factors)
Great progress, but it seems like this is a moving target. As a rapidly developing country it’s unlikely renewable energy capacity will keep pace with total energy consumption
As someone else said, it is indeed a moving target, and achieving 40% now is not the same as 40% in 2030. A more clearer picture is presented in this article:
> India’s installed Renewable Energy (RE) capacity stands at 150.54 GW, which includes solar at 48.55 GW, wind (40.03 GW), small hydro power (4.83 GW), bio-power (10.62 GW) and large hydro power (46.51 GW) as of November 2021. The nuclear energy based installed electricity capacity stands at 6.78 GW.
> “In line with the Prime Minister’s announcement at the recently concluded CoP26, the Government is committed to achieving 500 GW of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by the year 2030,” the ministry added.
Only if you believe a hugely populated, low carbon-intensity and poor country should bear the costs of CO2 in the atmosphere that was mostly released by rich countries during their industrialization.
"Rich western countries have mostly caused this problem, now you stay poor so it doesn't get worse" wasn't going to go over very well with Indian voters.
Unlike most developed countries including China with a saturated infrastructure, India has a great potential to be a store of value in the form of road, rail, bridges and ports.
Burdening India with unfair co2 restrictions while the developed countries continue to emit ginormous amounts just to maintain an unsustainable lifestyle.
People who flush their toilets with drinking water pointing fingers at people who are struggling to get safe drinking water.
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[1] https://cercind.gov.in/2011/Whats-New/PERFORMANCE%20OF%20SOL...
[2] https://www.cmu.edu/ceic/assets/docs/seminar-files/2012-2013...
[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18318-7/figures/1
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https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/india-meets-target...
> India’s installed Renewable Energy (RE) capacity stands at 150.54 GW, which includes solar at 48.55 GW, wind (40.03 GW), small hydro power (4.83 GW), bio-power (10.62 GW) and large hydro power (46.51 GW) as of November 2021. The nuclear energy based installed electricity capacity stands at 6.78 GW.
> “In line with the Prime Minister’s announcement at the recently concluded CoP26, the Government is committed to achieving 500 GW of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by the year 2030,” the ministry added.
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Burdening India with unfair co2 restrictions while the developed countries continue to emit ginormous amounts just to maintain an unsustainable lifestyle.
People who flush their toilets with drinking water pointing fingers at people who are struggling to get safe drinking water.