New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) Rapidly declining costs of electrotech like solar panels and batteries have unlocked a new energy path for countries like India that did not exist a decade ago when China was expanding its power sector.In 2004, when China crossed 1,500 kWh of electricity use per capita, coal generation was about ten times cheaper than nascent solar photovoltaics (PV). This led to coal accounting for nearly 70 per cent of the growth in China’s electricity generation over a decade.In con…
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New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) India needs to further strengthen its renewable energy (RE) ecosystem and scale clean energy deployment, according to a senior government official.Santosh Sarangi, Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, said that India’s renewable energy journey over the last decade has been nothing short of spectacular, marked by phenomenal leapfrogging in global rankings.“Our strategy has been defined by a single-minded national objective pursued across three clear vertic…