{"id":218578,"date":"2022-12-15T20:26:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218578"},"modified":"2022-12-15T20:26:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:56:48","slug":"energy-conundrum-solar-power-is-important-for-india-but-it-will-not-serve-every-energy-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/energy-conundrum-solar-power-is-important-for-india-but-it-will-not-serve-every-energy-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy conundrum \u2013 Solar power is important for India, but it will not serve every energy need"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cEnergy conundrum \u2013 Solar power is important for India, but it will not serve every energy need\u201d <\/strong>published in The Hindu<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a015th<\/sup> December 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>concerns associated with setting up solar powers<\/strong><\/h5>\n

News: <\/strong>India has committed to source nearly half its energy from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030 and source at least 60% of its renewable energy from solar power. However, there are problems associated with generating solar based energy.<\/p>\n

What were the plans of the government regarding solar powers and what are problems associated with it?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The government decided to set up large solar parks as small parks lead to higher per-unit production costs.<\/p>\n

The government announced the \u2018Solar Parks and Ultra-Mega Solar Power Projects\u2019<\/strong> policy for the creation of large parks in 2014 with an initial plan to set up 25 parks capable of generating at least 20,000 MW by 2019.<\/p>\n

The government later increased it to 61 parks with a target of 40,000 MW in 2017.<\/p>\n

However, only a fourth<\/strong> of the capacity has been achieved by now which means projects worth 10,000 MW have been commissioned. Four projects have also been cancelled by the Centre due to slow progress.<\/p>\n

Further, India had committed to generate 1,00,000 MW from solar power by the end of 2022. However, only around 61,000 MW of such capacity has actually been installed.<\/p>\n

There are various reasons behind the slow progress such as challenges in acquiring land<\/strong>, setting up necessary infrastructure<\/strong>, and environmental issues<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What is the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

These all show that India is lagging behind its commitment and it seems that Solar power may not be enough to cater the demand of the growing India.<\/p>\n

Therefore, along with expanding the economy the government should also consider whether renewable power, solar, wind or nuclear will be enough for sustainable economic growth or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cEnergy conundrum \u2013 Solar power is important for India, but it will not serve every energy need\u201d published in The Hindu\u00a0on\u00a015th December 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Environment Relevance: concerns associated with setting up solar powers News: India has committed to source nearly half its energy from non-fossil… Continue reading Energy conundrum \u2013 Solar power is important for India, but it will not serve every energy need<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-218578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704631452},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218578","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}