India in its national electricity plan for the coming ten years expects renewable energy generation to reach 20.3% of its total energy requirement by 2022, and 24.2% by 2027, the central electricity authority says.
The government of the sub-continent also expects that the share of non-fossil based installed capacity (nuclear, hydro and renewables) to increase to 46.8% by 2022, and further to 56.5
