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Lower coal use =/= Not expanding coal. India's Power Ministry itself has planned coal power expansion [0] until 2047. India would be electrifying even faster

Lower coal use =/= Not expanding coal. India's Power Ministry itself has planned coal power expansion [0] until 2047. India would be electrifying even faster if China wasn't export controlling IP [1] and taking India to the WTO for subsidizing green energy [2] [0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/india-mulls-extending-coal-power-expansion-for-another-12-years https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/india-mul... [1] - https://www.mercomindia.com/china-tightens-curbs-on-export-of-lithium-ion-battery-components https://www.mercomindia.com/china-tightens-curbs-on-export-o... [2] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-files-wto-complaint-over-india-ev-battery-subsidies-2025-10-15/ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-files-wto-complain...

toomuchtodo 10mo ago
Words are cheap, trajectories are real. You are entitled to your opinion, but the facts are clean energy trajectories are locked in by economics and manufacturing curves (production, cost, and learning rates). Modi is 75, he will be replaced eventually with someone new (if only out of life expectancy), and so stated policy through 2050 is not a predicator.
- alephnerd 10mo ago
  But actions are not [0]. India does not view fossil fuels and cleantech as a zero-sum game. Choosing to ignore the Indian trend of expanding both renewable and fossil fuel capacity is ridiculous. > Modi is 75, he will be replaced eventually with someone new (if only out of life expectancy) Modi is expected to remain in office til 2034 [1], and his parents lived into their 90s. > so stated policy through 2050 is not a predicator. It is in India, which operates on 5 year plans like China. The current reshoring of fossil fuels is itself due to China's weaponization of export controls [2]. ClimateTech will and is dramatically expanding in India, but India will continue to use fossil fuels as a backstop as long as China remains a national security threat to India. [0] - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/indian-states-sign-more-coal-power-deals-meet-rising-demand-2025-10-07/ https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat... [1] - https://theprint.in/opinion/why-pm-modi-has-staked-claim-for-a-fourth-term-so-early-in-his-third/2248414/ https://theprint.in/opinion/why-pm-modi-has-staked-claim-for... [2] - https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/cag/publications/center-publications/publication-article/detail/sino-india-relations-in-light-of-green-energy-transition https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/cag/publications/center-publicatio...

toomuchtodo 10mo ago

Words are cheap, trajectories are real. You are entitled to your opinion, but the facts are clean energy trajectories are locked in by economics and manufacturing curves (production, cost, and learning rates). Modi is 75, he will be replaced eventually with someone new (if only out of life expectancy), and so stated policy through 2050 is not a predicator.

alephnerd 10mo ago
But actions are not [0]. India does not view fossil fuels and cleantech as a zero-sum game. Choosing to ignore the Indian trend of expanding both renewable and fossil fuel capacity is ridiculous. > Modi is 75, he will be replaced eventually with someone new (if only out of life expectancy) Modi is expected to remain in office til 2034 [1], and his parents lived into their 90s. > so stated policy through 2050 is not a predicator. It is in India, which operates on 5 year plans like China. The current reshoring of fossil fuels is itself due to China's weaponization of export controls [2]. ClimateTech will and is dramatically expanding in India, but India will continue to use fossil fuels as a backstop as long as China remains a national security threat to India. [0] - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/indian-states-sign-more-coal-power-deals-meet-rising-demand-2025-10-07/ https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat... [1] - https://theprint.in/opinion/why-pm-modi-has-staked-claim-for-a-fourth-term-so-early-in-his-third/2248414/ https://theprint.in/opinion/why-pm-modi-has-staked-claim-for... [2] - https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/cag/publications/center-publications/publication-article/detail/sino-india-relations-in-light-of-green-energy-transition https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/cag/publications/center-publicatio...