I was reading an article a few days back, I want to quote the statement of Mr. Bill Hare (CEO Climate Analytics), he said "Few major emitters are taking the kind of action that will keep warming to 1.5 Celsius, but some, like India, the EU, and China, could step up at the New York climate summit and announce stronger targets". Is it possible for India to reach this target by reducing dependency on coal-fired power plants?
Dear Santanu,
In India currently about 60-70% of power generation comes through coal and at this moment of time, we have about coal reserves for about 80 more years. Observing the trend from a past decade, I don't feel we will reduce our dependency on coal anytime soon. However, I feel India is progressing towards development of renewables to combact growing demand, but the real question is would it be enough? At this moment of time, the combustion scientific community is more concerned about development of use technologies like flameless coal gasification or combustion which can be incooparated with the existing technology.
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