Solar Energy in India

At UN climate talks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India will aim for net-zero emissions by 2070 — two decades later than many advocates had hoped. He also slightly revised some of his existing targets by pledging that India would install 500 gigawatts of non-fossil energy by 2030 and meet half of its energy demands from renewable sources by that date, up from a previously announced goal of 40 percent. Read here the energy requirement of India and the share of solar and other renewable…

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi having announced India’s intent to achieve 500 GW of its capacity through non-fossil fuels and 50% of its energy requirement from renewables at COP26 by 2030, the countdown has begun on the ambitious target.

Heads have begun to come together in the government to draw up a detailed action plan to take up the 450 GW plan up to 500 GW announced by PM Modi at COP26 as it is no mean target, experts say

India’s renewable energy (RE) capacity is at just about 100 GW in 2021. This means, the country needs to add another 400 GW by 2030, officials said.

India’s Solar Energy Initiatives

• Solar energy has taken a central place in India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change with the National Solar Mission as one of the key Missions.
• National Solar Mission (NSM) was launched on 11^th January, 2010. Its objective is to establish India as a global leader in solar energy by creating the policy conditions for solar technology diffusion across the country as quickly as possible.
• It targets installing 100 GW grid-connected solar power plants by the year 2022. This is in line with India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) target to achieve about 40% cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil.

• In order to achieve the above target, the Government of India has launched various schemes to encourage generation of solar power in the country like Solar Park Scheme, Canal bank & Canal top Scheme, Bundling Scheme, Grid Connected Solar Rooftop Scheme etc.

• India has an ambitious cross-border power grid plan—‘One Sun One World One Grid’— that seeks to transfer solar power generated in one region to feed the electricity demands of others

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