India, April 23 -- India's electricity demand is soaring, driven by economic growth and upcoming drivers for demand, including from cooling, industry, green hydrogen, and mobility (electric vehicles). The government's plan to install 500 GW of non-fossil capacity by 2030 is ambitious, but is this "enough"?

Let's consider only meeting rising demand with new renewable energy (RE, or even non-fossil, which adds new hydro and nuclear supply) - if we don't have enough, then we need more fossil fuel output, primarily coal. As we dig deeper through a new CSEP study, we find that not only is the ambition insufficient to meet incremental demand through 2030 on average, but the situation is even more challenging for these RE targets when we consid...