siliconindia | | July 20204Climate change is one of the most talked about topics currently world over. Plastic pollution, air pollution, greenhouse gases, melting caps of our poles; all have gotten the world leaders thinking ways to slow it down, if not reverse the cycle. There is some good news though. The shift in the electricity sector has effectively become unstoppable. Globally, more renewable energy capacity has been installed than new fossil fuel and nuclear capacity combined, for four years running. Some 181 GW of new renewables capacity was installed in 2018; it now makes up more than one-third of global installed power capacity. These are mainstream power sources, here to stay.While the world bringing in reinforcements to address the clean energy needs, India too has spurring its way towards becoming a global epitome of renewable energy. India is the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind China and the United States. To curb emissions, Indian officials say they want to increase the share of renewables in the nation's energy mix.Renewables currently account for 22 percent of India's total installed capacity of about 357 GW. And the Indian government wants to have 175 GW of renewable-based installed power capacity by 2022, and raise it further to 500 GW, or 40 percent of total capacity, by 2030. A couple of weeks ago, Power Minister R K Singh said that as much as USD 70 billion (about Rs 5.2 lakh crore) has been invested in renewable energy across the country in the past seven years. This assumes significance in view of India's ambitious target of having 175 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy by 2022.According to the analytics firm British Business Energy, India ranked 3rd globally in terms of its renewable energy investments and plans in 2020. In this edition of SiliconIndia, we collectively call out for those companies who are doing their bit to bring India 2022 dream for clean energy a reality. Do let us know what you think. Emmanuel Christi DasEditoreditor@siliconindia.comLeaps and Bounds in Clean Energy !Editorial Vol 10 · Issue 10 - 02 · August, 2021 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Editor Emmanuel Christi Das Editorial Team Aveek Pal Chaudhuri Abantika Bhattarcharjee Komal Banchhor Mandvi Singh Rakesh P VP - Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar GM - Sales & Marketing Rohit Kumar Advertising Managers Editorial queries editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit https://www.siliconindia.com/subscribe/ or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com Cover price is Rs.150 per issue. Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2021 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.comVisualisers Suanya Chakraborty Group Art DirectorAshok KumarNoidaAshu Sethi Garima Anand Shivam AgarwalCirculation Manager Magendran Perumal Ashwini D Naik Naganidhi Shivam AgarwalCorrespondentsSambit Satpathy Subhadarshani Mohanty
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