15%of India’s power by 2030 to be green, says NITI Aayog
Solar power will be among the biggest
contributors to enhanced green power in the country. (HT Photo/Praful Gangurde)
The National
Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog has told the environment
ministry that renewable sources can make up at least 15% of India’s energy mix
by 2030 if present policies are given a push. This analysis was done as part of
the government’s strategy to enumerate India’s climate action plan to be
submitted to United Nations.
The action plan,
called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), is awaiting
Cabinet approval and is expected to be made in the first week of September.
Environment minister Prakash Javadekar had said that India’s submission to the
UN will be the most exhaustive, covering all crucial climate change areas —
mitigation, adaption, finance, technology.
As energy is the most
important component of the INDCs, the NITI Aayog has conducted a detailed
analysis of the futuristic energy needs depending on different scenarios. “We
have presented various scenarios and told the environment ministry that by
2030, India’s energy mix can have 15% renewable share easily,” a senior NITI
Aayog official told HT.
The analysis shows it
would be a big leap for India as renewable energy currently contributes to less
than 6% of the country’s energy mix. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced
setting up a green power capacity of 175 gigawatts (GW) by 2022 to ensure every
household gets adequate power.
India’s power demand
by 2030 is expected to be about 10 lakh MW. According to the panel, the biggest
contributors to enhanced green power will be solar and wind energy, contributing
about 70% to total power generation by renewable, followed by nuclear energy.
India plans to generate 20,000 MW of power from nuclear energy by 2030, when
renewable is expected to contribute 2,00,000 MW of energy.
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