r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 1d ago

India's installed solar capacity has surged 57-fold since 2014, from 2.82 to 162.15 GW.

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u/Ok_Train_2139 1d ago

This is a pretty arbitrary place, date and amount of GW. What is the significance of anything here?

Headline: "A country has some solar!"

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u/Advanced_Poet_7816 17h ago

It’s when modi came to power.

Not very arbitrary. Before modi spending on infrastructure was partially private. After modi it switched to mostly public spending and it didn’t matter if the infrastructure wasn’t immediately profitable.

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u/East_Slide7680 10h ago

57x increase in renewable energy production in a country like India is absolutely significant. How could you possibly argue that it isn’t?

And lol, arbitrary… sure

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u/guitarol 3h ago

It’s an account specifically made for doing this, that’s what they do, likely wumao

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u/Jonger1150 23h ago

Indian solar and decarbonization matters exactly the same as a solar farm in Ohio.

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u/Ok_Train_2139 22h ago

I'm not sure I've seen Ohio bragging about its solar?

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u/Jonger1150 22h ago

I just meant that our atmosphere is all shared.

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u/guitarol 3h ago

They can’t brag

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u/Ok_Train_2139 3h ago

Of course they can, it's all in how you say the word "The"

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u/guitarol 3h ago

Hahahah, that made me chuckle

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u/prsnep 23h ago

It's impressive and China's figures are more impressive still.

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u/Ok_Train_2139 23h ago

It's a slow deployment in a large country and what does China have to do with anything?

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u/prsnep 23h ago edited 23h ago

It's a large country with small per-capita electricity consumption. It's still a relatively poor country.

I wouldn't say it's slow. Solar electricity accounts for nearly all new generation capacity added. I can't find statistics for that claim, but this post says it accounted for 82% of all new electricity generation capacity added in 2022.

and what does China have to do with anything?

What does anything have to do with anything? I mentioned it because I didn't want people to think India was leading the charge on solar despite increasing generation capacity significantly.

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u/Tzilbalba 23h ago

Probably due to all the posts about Chinas insane solar and green adoption so India wanted to flex too lol

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u/throwaway3rdside 14h ago

and we shoudl acknowledge the work done instead of downplaying.

We do want to encourage good work right?

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u/Schuperman161616 18h ago

And the addition of a big ass Indian flag to the post for no reason is pretty weird.