TN, Rajasthan, Karnataka plan to shut door on new coal plants: Study
Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Karnataka are likely to follow the footsteps of Gujarat and Chhattisgarh to disallow new coal-fired plants in the future, a study by Climate Trends, a Delhi-based climate communications organisation noted.
In these states, new coal-based plants would be redundant since all of their future energy demands could be cost-effectively met by renewable and flexible-based energy alone.
The report, released by Climate Trends, affirms its findings on the analysis of current economic indicators, the states’ installed power capacities, electricity generation and renewable energy (RE) potential, as well as the impacts of air pollution and water stress, that is aggravated by coal power.
