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A must-surge year for climate goals

India has just crossed 100 GW of renewable capacity, leaving us around 350 GW to install to hit 450 GW

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Sumant Sinha
Cometh the hour, cometh the sector. The year 2022 will be critical for India’s renewable energy industry if it is to hit the country’s ambitious 2030 and 2070 climate goals. If we don’t ramp up the tempo in 2022, it will make the targets more difficult to reach in each succeeding year.

The goal of 450 GW of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030, a part of the key target of reaching 500 GW installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources—rightly set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at COP26 — is challenging.

India has just crossed 100 GW of renewable capacity, leaving
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