India does not have any immediate plans to add coal power generation capacity beyond 2035, a top power ministry official said recently. ‘India wants to secure its energy requirements,’ Pankaj Agarwal, secretary at the power ministry said on the sidelines of a power ministry event. ‘As on 2035, we want to have a coal capacity of 307 gigawatts.’ He said it would be ‘premature to say what we want to do beyond 2035’.
india this year proposed increasing its coal power capacity by 46% from the current 210 GW while doubling its non-fossil fuel capacity of 500 GW by 2030.
agarwal said the coal power plans are in line with the country’s energy requirements.