NEW DELHI: Universal access to electricity, the government\u2019s \u201ccommitment and conviction\u201d to fight climate change along with plans to rapidly expand renewable energy capacity will generate business prospects worth $20 billion, or Rs 1.5 lakh crore, every year, prime minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday urging investors to join India\u2019s renewable energy programme.
\n\u201cToday, every village and almost every household in India have access to electricity. Tomorrow, their energy demand will increase. Thus, demand for energy in India will keep growing. There are huge renewable energy deployment plans for the next decade. This is a big opportunity to invest in India,\u201d he said inaugurating \u2018RE-Invest 2020\u2019, the third global renewable energy showcase for investors hosted by India.
\n\u201cIndia\u2019s renewable power capacity is the fourth-largest in the world. It is growing at the fastest speed among all major countries,\u201d he said underlining the upside of India\u2019s renewable energy market. India currently has 136 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy capacity, which is about 36 per cent of the total installed capacity. This is to increase to 220 GW by 2035.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Universal access to electricity, the government\u2019s \u201ccommitment and conviction\u201d to fight climate change along with plans to rapidly expand renewable energy capacity will generate business prospects worth $20 billion, or Rs 1.5 lakh crore, every year, prime minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday urging investors to join India\u2019s renewable energy programme. \u201cToday, every village and almost every household in India have access to electricity. Tomorrow, their energy demand will increase. Thus, demand for energy in India will keep growing. There are huge renewable energy deployment plans for the next decade. This is a big opportunity to invest in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}