CLIMATE CHALLENGE

Non-fossil fuel capacity to be increased to 40% by 2030 The high percentage of intermittent energy capacity (230 GW out of 820 GW) to require stronger grids and balancing power needs Increased use of air conditioning to make balancing peak demand against peak supply more difficult Cost of energy could escalate because of balancing power requirements and excess grid capacity maintenance Government’s commitment of power for all without outages and Make in India programme could increase missions intensity Emission intensity of GDP has to be brought below 2005 levels by 3335% by 2030 Emissions from railways, buildings, industry automobiles and forestry to be strongly regulated Collection and analysis of primary data on greenhouse gas emissions to put burden on industry of new compliance regulations