Bengaluur, India (AP). One of the most carbon -surveyed countries, India also makes a lot of effort to use the power of the sun, wind and other clean energy sources.
Most of the electricity in India, the most living in the world, is still of coal, one of the dirtiest forms of energy. However, according to the Indian Ministry, Coal’s dominance is reduced from 60% of installed power capacity to less than 50%.
At the same time in India, the largest addition to the clean energy of all time in the fiscal year from 2024. April By April this year, adding 30 gigavates is enough to feed nearly 18 million Indian homes.
With the growth of middle class and increasing energy needs, how fast India can move away from coal and other fossil fuels such as gasoline and oil can have a major impact on global efforts to face climate change.
Here is an image of “Indian Clean Energy Transition” and several challenges.
Renewable energy is now the most economical option
Solar energy is now half the power of new carbon -powered factories. Cheap components and many sunny days in India have several reasons why experts say solar energy has increased 30 times over the last decade.
“Solar energy is the cheapest as it ever was,” said Ruchita Shah, Ember’s energy analyst at the Climate Think Reservoir. Shah added that the cost of energy storage costs in the form of batteries means that the renewable energy will be “new normal”, even if the sun does not get nervous or the wind is not blown.
In India, there are nearly 170 gigavat renewable energy project pipelines, which are expected to be completed in the next few years.
“I have no doubt that India will reach its goal by 2030,” said Raghav Pachuri, the energy expert of the new Delhi Foundation, the new Delhi Foundation.
Government policy and private investments push renewable energy sources
Experts say that the growth of renewable energy sources is driven by Indian plans to add approximately 50 gigawatts each year to the fossil fuel energy capacity for the next five years and give clean energy 50% of the nation’s energy for a decade. Fossil fuels have released a greenhouse gas, such as carbon dioxide, the main engine of climate change.
2022 The law, which made electricity cheaper for companies who chose to buy clean energy, the Federal Government’s recommendation that state utilities are buying more renewable energy; Government plan to invest $ 452 million. USD, all catalysed investments in renewable energy sources.
In India, there is the fourth largest amount of clean power implemented in the world, and government officials said $ 81 billion has been invested in the renewable energy sector in the last decade. Several large -scale renewable energy projects have been opened, which are being built, including one of the world’s largest wind and solar power farms.
“We have seen domestic production capacity, at least when it comes to solar panel modules, growing,” said Madhura Joshi, a senior energy analyst at Think-Tank E3G.
However, renewable energy sources are not exhausted sufficiently
Despite the speed of growth, the challenges remain. Although non -fossil fuel sources now account for 45% of all Indian capacity, their share in the actual electricity production last year was 24%. Coal remains a dominant source formed by 75% of electricity generation.
Sun, wind, small hydroelectric power plants and biomass in the Indian electricity generation in a mixture of 12%, twice as large in 2014, but still lower than expectations, according to a new Delhi-Tank, Science and Environment Center.
The installed capacity is growing, but energy production from renewable energy sources must be optimized and efficiently integrated into the network found in the report.
At the crossroads of clean energy
The recently published non -profit Clean Energy Think Reservoir RMI report shows that by 2050 The demand for electricity will increase triple-it leads to more electric vehicles, air conditioners and industrial growth.
Purchase of land for clean energy for projects remains a challenge. India also needs to quickly develop a solid power transmission infrastructure and energy storage facilities to continue to increase clean energy capacity.
“India is expected to become the third largest economy in the world over the years, and I think we will have to use renewable energy to do so. There is no possibility for us because fossil fuel cannot keep up with energy needs,
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