India’s coal plant commissioning slowed, but new proposals persist: Survey
India continued to send mixed signals about its future coal use, as new plant commissioning slowed to their lowest in years, but plans for new projects persist and no clear retirement plans are in place, Global Energy Monitor’s ninth annual survey of the coal plant pipeline said on Wednesday.
The report finds that India only commissioned 3.5 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power capacity in 2022. Excluding a pandemic slump in 2020, this was the lowest annual addition since a 2014 high, and from 2015 to 2022, India’s pre-construction coal power capacity also decreased by nearly 88 per cent to 28.5 GW.
