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Stepping up its own efforts for a sustainable future!

Stepping up its own efforts for a sustainable future!

Last month, The Lancet, a well-known medical journal, had reported that India is one of the worst affected countries by climate change, in terms of human health.

Thus, it’s heartening to learn that India could achieve the targets it set in the Paris Climate Agreement a decade ahead of schedule, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), a noted US-based think tank.

This development comes ahead of the report that the India government will submit at the COP24 UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland, presenting an update on the progress it has reached in fulfilling its Paris climate goals.

Two key developments are set to take place next year.

Firstly, India will limit its thermal power capacity to 226 gigawatts (GWs) or 63% of its total 360 GW. At that rate, the share of non-fossil fuel capacity is likely to exceed 40% by the end of 2019. Also, vast amounts of thermal power projects have been shelved or cancelled—573 GWs since 2010.

Moreover, as per the Centre’s National Electricity Plan for 2018, “fossil fuel capacity will decline from 218 GW or 67 per cent of 2017 installed capacity to 264 GW or just 43 per cent of total installed capacity by 2027

By 2027, renewables could account for 44% of the total installed system capacity with hydro and nuclear raising that figure by a further 13%.

It’s about time India made a drastic transition to renewables considering how it suffered the past year with serious volatility in global crude oil prices.

With the country importing a majority of its crude oil requirements, such volatility has a grave financial bearing on not just the government’s finances but households as well.

Furthermore, companies operating coal-powered plants are suffering significant financial distress and causing a serious burden on the public exchequer. With renewables priced as low as Rs 3/kilowatt hour, the future of India’s energy ecosystem seems set.

Reference: The Better India

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