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Cover Story 2022: Year of Willpower

AATMANIRBHAR Battery storage is a challenge in the field of solar

BHARAT'S STEPS energy, for which India is continuously working...

There is a target
Despite having 17 percent
TOWARDS to make railways of the world's population,
green by 2030,
India's emissions are only
which will help
5 percent.
GREEN GOALS carbon emissions. India achieved its 2030
reduce 60 million
target of meeting 40
metric tonnes of
percent of its installed
power capacity from non-
Whether it is the initiative to deal with the fossil energy sources in
challenges of climate change through Mission November 2021 itself.
Life or showing the world the path to a solution The target of COP-21 was
through Panchamrit, India has always set achieved nine years ahead
an example. Because of the continuity and of schedule.
corrective efforts of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, India is setting new records.

India's renewable energy capacity was 20 GW in
2014; then Prime Minister Modi decided to take it to
100 GW by 2022. But India has shown a new path to
the world by achieving this goal before the stipulated
time. Not only this, the cost of solar energy has come
down from Rs 16 per unit to Rs 2 per unit today.
Understanding the power of solar energy as an
alternative source of energy, India laid the foundation
of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in 2015. India
is the only country in the world where commercial
aircraft have flown on bio-fuel as a result of strong
steps toward self-sufficiency in green goals.
Battery storage is a challenge in the field of solar
energy, on which India is continuously working.
There is a target to make railways green by 2030,
which will help reduce 60 million metric tonnes of
carbon emissions.
Despite having 17 percent of the world's population,
India's emissions are only 5 percent.
India achieved its 2030 target of meeting 40 percent
of its installed power capacity from non-fossil energy
sources in November 2021 itself. INDIA BECOMES AN EMERGING GLOBAL
A four-fold increase in renewable energy installed LEADER IN RENEWABLE ENERGY.
capacity since 2014. An increase of 1900 percent in
the installed capacity of solar energy since 2014 Third largest producer of renewable energy in the
At Cop-27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed world.
Panchamrit, and LiFE that is, the mantra of lifestyle The fourth-largest installed wind power capacity
which was given for the environment. India is The fifth largest installed solar power capacity
making the world turn heads with its stupendous Placed third in the 2021 Renewable Energy Country
achievements. Attractiveness Index.

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