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India Pauses Plans to Add New Coal Plants for Five Years, Bets on Renewables
- aatharuv 3y agoHere's the original article it links to: https://apnews.com/article/india-coal-pause-plan-climate-renewables-68b75402af663e4553434bc672fc9cda https://apnews.com/article/india-coal-pause-plan-climate-ren... Some of the useful tidbits: - India currently plans on reaching net-zero by 2070. - This does pause any coal power plants under construction, and for now doesn't prevent planning to add new coal power plants after 2027 - Lots of increased electricity demand during the day to to hotter weather and longer summers because of climate change can be met by solar power. - India plans on adding 500 GW of clean energy by 2030, but needs to pick up the pace to meet the target (from 17 GW constructed/ year to 40 GW constructed/year ). - Instead of 8GW of new Coal capacity, India would be building out battery storage instead. I do wonder how needs will go down, if India's population starts dropping earlier than expected. India's population is expected to start dropping by 2050.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoConsidering the relatively low level of development of many areas in India and the fact they are developing, I expect that demand per capita for about anything will significantly increase in the coming decades. You'd need a drastic population decline to offset that, I think.
- aatharuv 3y agoIt's guaranteed to increase. The question is how fast will it increase, and will it increase more slowly than expected.