Following Chinas lead India has now declared they will be using coal as their primary power source.
Renewables have caused reliability issues in supplying their rapidly increasing demand.
2.8 Billion people in the worlds fastest growing economies are no longer participating and looking to coal as primary power.
G7 countries have about 780 million and about 27% of World GDP.
"Limited success with renewables forced the government to halt plans to retire some 15% of India’s 210 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity, and repeatedly postpone deadlines to install flue gas desulfurization units to control sulfur emissions at generators, with 2027 now targeted versus 2017 originally. Relaxed green targets have helped state-run miner Coal India grow output by 16% this fiscal year. That is still insufficient to meet India’s peak power demand of 230 GW this year from 216 GW last year, prompting higher imports of the fuel. "Coal will be key to our energy security, and we don’t plan to retire any [of] our old thermal generators as it was thought earlier," the top official said. "We will keep them in production."
They don't even have scrubbers on the coal plants
Renewables have caused reliability issues in supplying their rapidly increasing demand.
2.8 Billion people in the worlds fastest growing economies are no longer participating and looking to coal as primary power.
G7 countries have about 780 million and about 27% of World GDP.
"Limited success with renewables forced the government to halt plans to retire some 15% of India’s 210 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity, and repeatedly postpone deadlines to install flue gas desulfurization units to control sulfur emissions at generators, with 2027 now targeted versus 2017 originally. Relaxed green targets have helped state-run miner Coal India grow output by 16% this fiscal year. That is still insufficient to meet India’s peak power demand of 230 GW this year from 216 GW last year, prompting higher imports of the fuel. "Coal will be key to our energy security, and we don’t plan to retire any [of] our old thermal generators as it was thought earlier," the top official said. "We will keep them in production."
They don't even have scrubbers on the coal plants
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