{"id":126145,"date":"2021-08-14T18:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T12:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=126145"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T05:28:04","slug":"at-100gw-india-now-4th-in-solar-wind-energy-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/at-100gw-india-now-4th-in-solar-wind-energy-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"At 100GW, India now 4th in solar, wind energy capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/at-100-gw-indias-solar-wind-energy-capacity-worlds-fourth-largest\/articleshow\/85313737.cms\">Times of India<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>India\u2019s renewable energy capacity, excluding large hydroelectric projects, hit 100 GW (gigawatts) on 12th Aug 21, making it the world\u2019s fourth largest in terms of total installed green energy capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The 100 GW renewable capacity accounts for 26% of India\u2019s total installed generation capacity of 383 GW.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It should be noted that in 2015, India had announced its plan to build 175 GW renewable energy capacity by 2022. This target has been enhanced to install 450 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>The milestone is commendable for the world\u2019s third-largest polluter, as it has been <strong>achieved in a short span of five years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This milestone of reaching 100 GW, will <strong>help us to resist international pressure<\/strong> <strong>to declare a net-zero goal<\/strong> and India can call out the developed countries to increase their efforts to reduce carbon emission.<\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>shows India&#8217;s commitment to decarbonize its economy<\/strong> and will meet its NDC\u00a0(nationally determined contributions) targets for power generation from non-fossil fuel sources and emission reductions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Terms to know<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/international-solar-alliance\/\">International Solar Alliance<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Times of India What is the news? India\u2019s renewable energy capacity, excluding large hydroelectric projects, hit 100 GW (gigawatts) on 12th Aug 21, making it the world\u2019s fourth largest in terms of total installed green energy capacity. The 100 GW renewable capacity accounts for 26% of India\u2019s total installed generation capacity of 383 GW.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/at-100gw-india-now-4th-in-solar-wind-energy-capacity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At 100GW, India now 4th in solar, wind energy capacity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[768,3222,8796,3223],"class_list":["post-126145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-energy","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar-energy","tag-wind-energy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700459652},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}