[aatharuv]

Here's the original article it links to:

https://apnews.com/article/india-coal-pause-plan-climate-ren...

Some of the useful tidbits:

- India currently plans on reaching net-zero by 2070.

- This does pause any coal power plants under construction, and for now doesn't prevent planning to add new coal power plants after 2027

- Lots of increased electricity demand during the day to to hotter weather and longer summers because of climate change can be met by solar power.

- India plans on adding 500 GW of clean energy by 2030, but needs to pick up the pace to meet the target (from 17 GW constructed/ year to 40 GW constructed/year ).

- Instead of 8GW of new Coal capacity, India would be building out battery storage instead.

I do wonder how needs will go down, if India's population starts dropping earlier than expected. India's population is expected to start dropping by 2050.

[mytailorisrich]

Considering the relatively low level of development of many areas in India and the fact they are developing, I expect that demand per capita for about anything will significantly increase in the coming decades. You'd need a drastic population decline to offset that, I think.

[aatharuv]

It's guaranteed to increase. The question is how fast will it increase, and will it increase more slowly than expected.