{"id":21365,"date":"2018-11-20T15:12:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T09:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=21365"},"modified":"2018-11-20T15:12:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T09:42:24","slug":"india-renewable-energy-report-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2018\/11\/20\/india-renewable-energy-report-card\/","title":{"rendered":"India Renewable Energy Report Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India has become a <strong>hot spot for renewable energy investments<\/strong>. The country is attracting\u00a0a huge number of investors both domestic and international. Foreign investment into this segment has also increased manifolds to <strong><em>$6.84 billion<\/em><\/strong> over the last eight years. You can imagine the popularity of renewable energy over the recent years, with over $40 billion being invested in the country&#8217;s renewable energy sector\u00a0in the last four years itself. The spur of investment\u00a0does not seem to settle with <strong><em>$80 billion<\/em> <\/strong>being projected to be invested over the coming four years. The country added more than <strong><em>11 GW of renewable capacity<\/em><\/strong> in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/solar-panels-india.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16748\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/solar-panels-india-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"solar panels india\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/solar-panels-india-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/solar-panels-india-500x266.jpg 500w, https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/solar-panels-india-141x75.jpg 141w, https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/solar-panels-india-480x255.jpg 480w, https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/solar-panels-india.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width:767px) 300px, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India has pledged renewable sources to account for 40% of\u00a0its total power need by 2030. In this regard, India aims to install 100 GW of solar and 60 GW of wind capacities by 2022. In addition, 60 Indian solar cities are also proposed to be developed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, read\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/2016\/07\/14\/role-of-solar-energy-in-developing-smart-cities-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Role of Solar Energy in developing Smart Cities in India<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Solar has become quite mainstream with tariffs settling down to as low as INR 2.44 per unit. The price of solar panels has also declined in the recent quarter. India ranks fourth in EY Renewable Energy Country Attractive Index 2018, making the country more attractive for renewable energy investments. The country accounts for\u00a04.4%\u00a0of the global renewable generation capacity. The country ranks fourth in terms of total installed\u00a0wind power capacity and fifth in terms of cumulative installed solar capacity in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>You might also like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/2018\/03\/26\/state-wise-solar-state-rankings-india-2017-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Wise Solar State Rankings<\/a> \u2013 India 2017-18<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has become a hot spot for renewable energy investments. The country is attracting\u00a0a huge number of investors both domestic and international. Foreign investment into this<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,40,45,69],"tags":[2833],"class_list":["post-21365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-green-stocks-greeninvest","category-renewable-energy","category-solar-renewable-energy-greeninvest","category-wind-renewable-energy-greeninvest","tag-india-renewable-energy-report-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}