India, Sept. 23 -- India has crossed a landmark in its energy journey, with non-fossil sources now accounting for more than half the country's installed power capacity-five years ahead of its Paris Agreement commitments. But achieving a "Viksit Bharat" by 2047 will require tripling primary energy supply and scaling up non-fossil energy forty-fold, according to a new study released by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and EY.

The report, Eigenvectors of Net Zero Energy Transition: Pathways to Viksit Bharat 2047, launched at the 6th International Energy Conference and Exhibition, stresses that India's transition to net-zero by 2070 cannot be achieved by focusing on gigawatt additions alone. Instead, it must balance affordability, ...