G Prasad chief engineer at the Indian Federal Power ministry said
Solar power definitely has a role to play, but as Mr Prasad noted in the article above:
India Expects coal capacity to swell by a fifth in three years to 238GW!“If we have to meet demand and address the intermittencies we have with solar and wind, we have no choice but to keep depending on coal-based generation in the near future.”
https://www.energylivenews.com/2019/08/05/india-expects-coal-capacity-to-swell-by-a-fifth-in-three-years/ The independent have got it wrong!
acknowledgement to Paul Homewood blog
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