India’s ambitious renewable energy target of 175 GW by 2022 has firmly placed renewables as a mainstream electricity supply option. This has attracted a great deal of attention from diverse stakeholders in India as well as the international community.

India’s ambitious renewable energy target of 175 GW by 2022 has firmly placed renewables as a mainstream electricity supply option. This has attracted a great deal of attention from diverse stakeholders in India as well as the international community.

The relationship between trade policy and climate policy needs to improve in the future, in particular with a view towards implementing the Paris Agreement.

India has reached 2.8 GW in solar installations year-to-date and cumulative installations have reached 8.1 GW as of August 2016. Mercom forecasts about 4.8 GW of solar to be installed in calendar year 2016, a slight decline from our previous forecast due to some projects getting moved to 2017.

The effects of climate change, which we are already witnessing, are the consequence of rising concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs). At the moment, absolute emissions are still rising, caused by our overwhelmingly fossil fuel-based energy system (our “brown infrastructure”).

Renewable Energy Sources (RES) offer many benefits, such as CO2 emissions mitigation, fossil fuels import requirement reduction and new jobs creation, just to name a few.