India achieves 2030 target of 40% non-fossil based electricity goal

Still a good thing, but title is misleading. 40% of India’s electricity does not come from non-fossil fuel sources. Instead, 40% of their installed capacity is non-fossil-fuel based. There’s a big difference because of the expected capacity factor of wind farms and solar farms vs fossil fuel plants. Even if 40% of your installed capacity is solar, with a capacity factor of 50%, you may be getting only 20% of your Joules from solar (fossil fuel plants generally have very high capacity factors)

Great progress, but it seems like this is a moving target. As a rapidly developing country it’s unlikely renewable energy capacity will keep pace with total energy consumption

Good to hear some positive news. Hope we begin using more nuclear soon and figure out how to leverage our thorium deposits.

As someone else said, it is indeed a moving target, and achieving 40% now is not the same as 40% in 2030. A more clearer picture is presented in this article:

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/india-meets-target...

> India’s installed Renewable Energy (RE) capacity stands at 150.54 GW, which includes solar at 48.55 GW, wind (40.03 GW), small hydro power (4.83 GW), bio-power (10.62 GW) and large hydro power (46.51 GW) as of November 2021. The nuclear energy based installed electricity capacity stands at 6.78 GW.

> “In line with the Prime Minister’s announcement at the recently concluded CoP26, the Government is committed to achieving 500 GW of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by the year 2030,” the ministry added.

Wasn't India a major obstacle to the COP26 agreement?