India’s solar, wind energy goal achievable? Govt tells how it will beat target, reveals roadmap
India will not only meet, but beat the seemingly impossible target of installing 175 gigawatts of renewable energy generation capacity by 2022-end, as the current work in progress leaves very little to be done to achieve the feet, according to the government. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has put up a roadmap on how the country reaches beyond 175 GW renewable energy capacity by 2022, in a rebuttal to a recent CRISIL report which said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious target is unlikely to be met in time.
India has already installed more than 82.5 GW in renewable energy generation capacity, such as solar, wind, bio, small hydro, and other, as of the end of September 2019. Out of this, around 31 GW of capacity is under various stages of installation. The renewable energy ministry claims that thus, by the first quarter of 2021, India would have installed more than 113 GW of renewable power capacity. Further, 39 GW of renewable energy capacity is under the bidding process right now, the ministry added.
