India's climate mitigation plans face a threat as Earth warms

Companies such as Hero Future Energies have started investing in digital solutions that help monitor weather changes, and plan generation accordingly

India is pitching its climate mitigation efforts on giga-scale renewable energy deployment. The country is aiming for a 450 Gw of renewable energy (RE) capacity by 2040, and is confident of meeting the commitments it made at the Paris Climate Conference in 2015. But this very plan is threatened by climate change since weather extremes in India hurt the sustainability of solar and wind projects.
 
This then creates the need for additional investment in projects for mitigation technologies, and forecasting and scheduling of RE generation to tackle unprecedented short- and long-term weather changes.
 
In the last five years,