At the end of the day, continuation of coal, oil, and natural gas are stop-gas/transitional measures to address energy equity especially for fast-growing and developing countries. This is well known all over the world, and stated here multiple times by "experts in the field". No amount of koila-tel-paad propaganda is going to change that.
India (and China) will definitely build/refurbish fossil-based power plants in the short term (10 years). The purpose of doing this is to ensure we have enough "cheap energy" in the short term to become prosperous, so that we can actually have a renewable energy future like the highly-developed EU and North America. The RE trajectory is very much the same in all these places: first the RE capacity was increased, then the utilization/generation was ramped up. China did all of it on steroids. India is on the same path. Again, read comprehensive analysis (e.g:
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insight ... view-2025/) and get real understanding, instead of plodding along/wasting time with trivial undergrad-level statements.
These points were stated back around 2014 in the same thread, but some posters still do not understand it. Same issue as 10 years ago, i.e. looking at 1 or 2 data points in time and providing false conclusions, versus recognizing/understanding long-term trends using the wealth of data and analysis already available.
Renewable and low-carbon nuclear are displacing fossil power very steadily (and in some countries, very fast). I can quote many statistics (already in the same report and in many other places) that clearly show how renewables have grown dramatically, but of course there will be more propaganda on koila-tel-paad in response. Plain common sense, i.e, looking at how India's energy mix has changed over the years/decades, shows where things are headed.
