{"id":179988,"date":"2021-12-22T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=179988"},"modified":"2021-12-22T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T19:15:09","slug":"india-adds-8530-mw-re-capacity-till-november-this-fiscal-rk-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/22\/india-adds-8530-mw-re-capacity-till-november-this-fiscal-rk-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"India adds 8,530 MW RE capacity till November this fiscal: RK Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, Dec 21 (PTI): India has added 8,530.92 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy capacity, including large hydro units, during April-November of the current fiscal, which is higher than 8,058.10 MW added in the entire 2020-21, Parliament was informed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During April-November 2021, 8,530.92 MW of the renewable energy capacity, including large hydro, was added in the country, which is higher than 8,058.10 MW added in the entire fiscal of 2020-21, according to a reply to a query in the Rajya Sabha given by Union Power and New &amp; Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the reply, India had added 9,143.30 MW of RE, including large hydro, in 2019-20 and 8,866.33 MW in 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister also told the House that against the target of 175 GW, a total of 150.54 GW of the renewable energy capacity, including large hydro, has been installed in the country as on November 30, 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India has set a target of having 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In another reply, the minister stated that the Government of India has made no commitment to phasing out coal by 2030.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, he stated that the coal-based thermal power capacity that has been retired so far is 15,241.8 MW.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About financing clean energy, in another reply, the minister said India expects developed countries to provide a climate finance of USD 1 trillion per year to the developing countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Dec 21 (PTI): India has added 8,530.92 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy capacity, including large hydro units, during April-November of the current fiscal, which is higher than 8,058.10 MW added in the entire 2020-21, Parliament was informed. During April-November 2021, 8,530.92 MW of the renewable energy capacity, including large hydro, was added in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-179988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}