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Solar+battery storage assessing viability in India

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At COP 21, the Paris Climate Conference 2015, India made a commitment that by the year 2030, India would increase the share of electricity generated from non-fossil fuels to about 40% of its total generation. To meet the commitment a major transformation is underway to replace thermal based generation with Renewable Energy (RE) complimented with energy storage technology.

As on March 31, 2019, the total installed capacity stood at 361.5 GW which constituted 228 GW from thermal, 7 GW from nuclear, 127 GW from renewable energy (including 50 GW from hydro). This reports details about Solar+battery storage assessing viability in India