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India is using cheap green tech to electrify faster than China

10 points by PaulHoule 9mo ago

toomuchtodo 9mo ago
India's Solar Manufacturing Excesses Turn a Boom into a Glut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050286 - February 2026 Ember Energy: India’s electrotech fast-track: where China built on coal, India is building on sun - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/indias-electrotech-fast-track-where-china-built-on-coal-india-is-building-on-sun/ https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/indias-electrotech-... - January 22nd, 2026 (India currently has 154.4GW/year of solar manufacturing capacity, 3x the country's current annual demand)
- PaulHoule 9mo ago
  They can start exporting to other countries who are wary of China. Note this facility in India was the biggest in the world a few years back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadla_Solar_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadla_Solar_Park but has been eclipsed by some very big facilities in China lately https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_sta...
- gritzko 9mo ago
  My cursory Google Maps inspection reveals that India still lags behind Pakistan.
  - toomuchtodo 9mo ago
    India is adding 2GW of solar every month, with 105GW currently in development pipelines. With that said, they're still adding coal capacity, so lots of solar, wind, and battery storage to deploy to destroy demand for existing and new thermal generation (208GW of coal, 25GW of fossil gas as of this comment per Electricity Maps). Have to reach low carbon deployment escape velocity. India adds record 35GW+ solar PV in 2025 - https://www.pv-tech.org/india-adds-record-35gw-solar-pv-in-2025/ https://www.pv-tech.org/india-adds-record-35gw-solar-pv-in-2... - January 5th, 2026 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_India ("Solar power is an important source of electricity in India. Since the mid-2010s, India has increased its solar power significantly with the help of various government initiatives. By January 2026, India's solar power installed capacity reached 140.6 GWAC. India is one of the world's fastest adopters of solar power, making it the third-largest producer of solar power globally as of 2025, after China and the United States.") (Global solar module manufacturing capacity is ~1.8TW/year as of this comment)

10 points by PaulHoule 9mo ago

India's Solar Manufacturing Excesses Turn a Boom into a Glut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050286 - February 2026 Ember Energy: India’s electrotech fast-track: where China built on coal, India is building on sun - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/indias-electrotech-fast-track-where-china-built-on-coal-india-is-building-on-sun/ https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/indias-electrotech-... - January 22nd, 2026 (India currently has 154.4GW/year of solar manufacturing capacity, 3x the country's current annual demand)

PaulHoule 9mo ago
They can start exporting to other countries who are wary of China. Note this facility in India was the biggest in the world a few years back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadla_Solar_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadla_Solar_Park but has been eclipsed by some very big facilities in China lately https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_sta...
gritzko 9mo ago
My cursory Google Maps inspection reveals that India still lags behind Pakistan.
- toomuchtodo 9mo ago
  India is adding 2GW of solar every month, with 105GW currently in development pipelines. With that said, they're still adding coal capacity, so lots of solar, wind, and battery storage to deploy to destroy demand for existing and new thermal generation (208GW of coal, 25GW of fossil gas as of this comment per Electricity Maps). Have to reach low carbon deployment escape velocity. India adds record 35GW+ solar PV in 2025 - https://www.pv-tech.org/india-adds-record-35gw-solar-pv-in-2025/ https://www.pv-tech.org/india-adds-record-35gw-solar-pv-in-2... - January 5th, 2026 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_India ("Solar power is an important source of electricity in India. Since the mid-2010s, India has increased its solar power significantly with the help of various government initiatives. By January 2026, India's solar power installed capacity reached 140.6 GWAC. India is one of the world's fastest adopters of solar power, making it the third-largest producer of solar power globally as of 2025, after China and the United States.") (Global solar module manufacturing capacity is ~1.8TW/year as of this comment)