New Delhi: The goal of tripling of renewable energy capacity will be aspirational and based on national circumstances, union power and renewable energy minister, RK Singh said on Tuesday on the sidelines of International Solar Alliance’s (ISA) sixth assembly.
“We discussed the tripling of renewable energy capacity goal in our G20 energy ministers meeting. We decided that this will be aspirational. Different countries have different national circumstances and every country is carrying out energy transition as per their national circumstances so this target when we discussed in the G20, we decided it should be aspirational,” Singh said.
“We (India) multiplied our solar capacity by about 35 times in the past 7 to 8 years and our renewable energy capacity is around 43% of total installed capacity and we have a target of adding about 50 GW every year. Every country has its own targets and nationally determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement,” Singh said.
