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Source: Associated Press
Gargantuan task: Why Indias renewable push will be hard
By ANUPAM NATH and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL
March 25, 2022
NAGAON, India (AP) Plans to build a sprawling solar park on land cultivated for generations by indigenous farmers in Indias Himalayan foothills erupted in violent clashes with police last year after their crops were bulldozed for the development.
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However it plays out in a district court, the dispute not only speaks to Indias often-tangled land ownership rules rooted in its colonial era. It also illustrates the complexity and immensity of the challenges facing the country of nearly 1.4 billion people in meeting its renewable power goals for the next decade.
Over the next 20 years, Indias demand for electricity will grow more than anywhere else in the world. Unlike most countries, India still has to develop and lift millions like Timungpi from poverty, and it will need to build a power system the size of the European Unions.
How India meets its energy and economic needs will have an outsized impact on the worlds climate goals. The country is a major contributor of greenhouse gases from the burning of coal and other fossil fuels.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-business-environment-india-f3aa5a3852d0c868bb453c8569cee2ce
cilla4progress
(24,554 posts)siding with Putin
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)got a lot of coastline suitable for wind generation. Where there's a will there's a way.
Finishline42
(1,091 posts)Saw something on using solar panels to shade plants and also collecting water from the panels (dew?). Turn marginal land into productive farm land.
NickB79
(19,063 posts)That alone will negate all their renewables.
Parts of India will simply have to be abandoned when wet bulb temps pass survivability.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/stroke-of-bad-luck-a-different-heat-to-worry-about/articleshow/84188711.cms