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Can India Afford to Quit Coal?
- toomuchtodo 7mo agoIndia has 3x domestic PV manufacturing capacity (~154.4GW/year) versus current demand (~50GW/year). They are deploying ~2GW of solar every month, with ~105GW currently in development pipelines. As the piece indicates, grid and battery storage investments are critical to avoiding additional coal generation need. Solar and storage are currently roughly half the cost of new coal. 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 Coal’s diminishing role in India’s electricity transition - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/coals-diminishing-role-in-indias-electricity-transition/ https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/coals-diminishing-r... - October 29th, 2025 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 2025
- toomuchtodo 7mo agoBattery storage is now cheap enough to unleash India’s full solar potential - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/battery-storage-is-now-cheap-enough-to-unleash-indias-full-solar-potential/ https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/battery-storage-is-... - April 7th, 2026 https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2026/04/Battery-storage-is-now-cheap-enough-to-unleash-Indias-full-solar-potential.pdf https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2026/04/Battery-storage...