Summary
Piyush Goyal, the Power and Renewable Energy Minister, reiterated that India's solar power target -- 100 GW by 2022 -- was achievable, but an IndiaSpend analysis shows that this expansion is challenged by weak infrastructure and a lack of cheap financing. To achieve its targets, India must add 130.76 GW of renewable energy over the next six years, an average of 21.7 GW per year or, three times the capacity it added in 2016. This target is crucial for India in achieving its goal to reduce global warming -- by the year 2100, the earth's temperature could increase by an average of 1.8 degrees Celsius, in the best scenario, and four degrees Celsius. In 2016, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in t......