India to overlook renewable vitality targets for 2022

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: As India submitted its renewed local weather pledge to United Nations final week, the nation will miss its renewable vitality goal of producing 175 GW of inexperienced vitality by finish of 2022 and now the deadline to has been pushed by a number of months with delays in attaining targets for each photo voltaic and wind energy within the nation, in accordance with authorities knowledge.

India’s up to date Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) underneath the Paris Agreement says that the nation seems at deriving about 50 per cent of electrical energy from non-fossil fuel-based vitality assets by 2030 however will miss the primary goal arrange for 2022 with a shortfall of over one-third of the capability.  

As per the targets, 175 GW of renewable vitality capability was to be put in by 2022, which incorporates 100 GW from photo voltaic, 60 GW from wind, 10 GW from biomass, and the remaining 5 GW from small hydropower. However, the official knowledge exhibits solely 57.71 GW of solar energy and 40.71 GW of wind vitality have been put in until June 2022.   

About the potential of attaining the goal by December 2022, the Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, deposing earlier than a parliamentary standing committee stated, “It is true that our target is 60 GW by the year 2022. As per the current situation, we may not be able to reach 60 GW. This is not only true for wind, but also for the overall target for Renewable Energy.”

“The delays are due to COVID and the impact of solar supply chain disruptions in China. An extension of five and a half months is given for the Scheduled Commissioning and an additional extension on a case-to-case basis is being considered for some projects as a special dispensation to offset the effect of COVID. As a result, it will take us some more time to reach 175 GW,” famous the parliamentary standing report on ‘evaluation of wind energy in India’ tabled in parliament final week.

The committee stated that greater than 200 GW of wind energy could be put in within the nation with commercially enticing tariffs. However, the cumulative put in capability of wind energy is barely 40.71 GW as of May 31, 2022, lower than one-fifth of the commercially exploitable potential.

Moreover, the committee observes that the put in capability of wind energy was 21,042.58 MW as of March 31, 2014, which has elevated to 40,706.38 MW as of May 30, 2022, a rise of 93.45 per cent in eight years. On the opposite hand, the put in capability of solar energy has exponentially elevated by 2,063.86 per cent throughout the identical interval. It provides an impression that photo voltaic vitality has been prioritised over wind vitality regardless of heavy dependence on imports within the photo voltaic vitality sector.

NEW DELHI: As India submitted its renewed local weather pledge to United Nations final week, the nation will miss its renewable vitality goal of producing 175 GW of inexperienced vitality by finish of 2022 and now the deadline to has been pushed by a number of months with delays in attaining targets for each photo voltaic and wind energy within the nation, in accordance with authorities knowledge.

India’s up to date Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) underneath the Paris Agreement says that the nation seems at deriving about 50 per cent of electrical energy from non-fossil fuel-based vitality assets by 2030 however will miss the primary goal arrange for 2022 with a shortfall of over one-third of the capability.  

As per the targets, 175 GW of renewable vitality capability was to be put in by 2022, which incorporates 100 GW from photo voltaic, 60 GW from wind, 10 GW from biomass, and the remaining 5 GW from small hydropower. However, the official knowledge exhibits solely 57.71 GW of solar energy and 40.71 GW of wind vitality have been put in until June 2022.   

About the potential of attaining the goal by December 2022, the Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, deposing earlier than a parliamentary standing committee stated, “It is true that our target is 60 GW by the year 2022. As per the current situation, we may not be able to reach 60 GW. This is not only true for wind, but also for the overall target for Renewable Energy.”

“The delays are due to COVID and the impact of solar supply chain disruptions in China. An extension of five and a half months is given for the Scheduled Commissioning and an additional extension on a case-to-case basis is being considered for some projects as a special dispensation to offset the effect of COVID. As a result, it will take us some more time to reach 175 GW,” famous the parliamentary standing report on ‘evaluation of wind energy in India’ tabled in parliament final week.

The committee stated that greater than 200 GW of wind energy could be put in within the nation with commercially enticing tariffs. However, the cumulative put in capability of wind energy is barely 40.71 GW as of May 31, 2022, lower than one-fifth of the commercially exploitable potential.

Moreover, the committee observes that the put in capability of wind energy was 21,042.58 MW as of March 31, 2014, which has elevated to 40,706.38 MW as of May 30, 2022, a rise of 93.45 per cent in eight years. On the opposite hand, the put in capability of solar energy has exponentially elevated by 2,063.86 per cent throughout the identical interval. It provides an impression that photo voltaic vitality has been prioritised over wind vitality regardless of heavy dependence on imports within the photo voltaic vitality sector.