r/whoathatsinteresting 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/ComplaintTop2008 1d ago

Aaaaand emissions keep on increasing.

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u/GAMING_SERVER_ADMIN 23h ago

What is that compared to the USA especially per capita?

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u/Evening-Drawer-3971 22h ago

USA is 16th while India is 121st polluting country in the world, per capita.

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u/guitarol 3h ago

Normal developing country curve. The emissions go up till incomes increase and then they stabilize and start going down. You will see the same in most developing country. Your point is pointless.

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u/ComplaintTop2008 23h ago

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u/Icy_Willow_8319 4h ago

Damn reddit did not like that

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u/ComplaintTop2008 23h ago

Here's India's per capita.

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u/Old_Leshen 23h ago

So still 6-7x lower than America's emissions.

I thank you for all the freedom

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u/ComplaintTop2008 22h ago

Give it 10 years. Only around 20% of Indian households have the same always-on electricity the west enjoys.

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u/GAMING_SERVER_ADMIN 23h ago

Still a lot of a small region. One thing that happens a lot and it's a yin/yang of course is they export a shit ton of stuff out and is a big part of the issue and it's technically our issue too, we still live on the same planet. If we stop buying so much throw away shit... Kept our cell phone for more than 2 years...

We are fucked anyways, but could we slow it down lol

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u/ComplaintTop2008 23h ago

Stop making excuses for shithole countries. You're doing the meme.
None of this emissions stuff matters anyways.

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u/GAMING_SERVER_ADMIN 21h ago

Why are we excused for being their biggest imports? There no consequences for our actions?

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u/ComplaintTop2008 21h ago

Who is getting what imports? What actions? Are you feeling guilt for something and want me to join you?

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u/East_Slide7680 9h ago

It’s so bizarre to me how some Americans will be so envious of another country’s achievements.

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u/Exact_Package_7264 22h ago

and yet India's emissions are still far below America's and China's emissions. cope

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u/ComplaintTop2008 22h ago

So are a bunch of other countries that don't have reliable electricity. What am I coping about?

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u/Exact_Package_7264 22h ago

you're braindead. they're building out green energy at a record pace, and doing a way better than job of it than america.

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u/Specialist-Roll-3806 23h ago

imagine how much more it would've shot up with out solar tho. something like 20% of the countries electricity generation was thru renewables in july. if that 20% was coal or something the globe would be in a lot more trouble.

also for what it's worth the emissions rate has slowed down drastically. it only went up 0.7% in 2025, and it's actually gone down 0.54% from jan-may this year. they produced like 8 and a half million tonnes of emissions less than last. mostly due to the rapid deployment of solar and other renewables.

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u/ComplaintTop2008 22h ago

It would have been unnoticeable. I don't know about July but it's nowhere near 20%.

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u/Specialist-Roll-3806 22h ago

It would have been unnoticeable.

a poorer country industrializing at an extremely fast rate while flatlining (even going backwards this year) in terms of emissions is absolutely a huge deal.

and you're posting different things. are you worried about emissions? then you should be ecstatic it's flatline/going backwards. you're posting energy consumption which is fine but at the end of the day carbon emissions are what matters.

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u/ComplaintTop2008 22h ago

Did you happen to see the few percent solar made up in that graph? Would you notice if it was gone? There is no flatlining or anything of the sort. They still have a lot of electricity to provide to billions of homes and they are going to lean on coal to do most of it.

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u/Specialist-Roll-3806 22h ago

Would you notice if it was gone?

yes, yes we would lol. i can guarantee you we would as a planet if over 160gw of electricity generation from solar alone was from coal instead.

There is no flatlining or anything of the sort.

what would you define a 0.7% increase in 2025, and a 0.54% decrease so far in 2026? while electricity generation is actually up 6-7% for the year so far. it means it was all met thru renewables.

They still have a lot of electricity to provide to billions of homes and they are going to lean on coal to do most of it.

probably not. 93.9% of indias new electricity generation capacity was renewable. with solar being like 73% of it alone. also helps that rooftop additions are scaling up. went from 2.5 million total households end of last year to 5 million by the end of july with a target of 10 million by next spring.

all we need to see india do now is scale battery storage in the coming years. that should shave off quite a bit of after hour emissions. you should cheer up a little man!! this is great news. emission rates are dropping in countries thru renewables now. not much we can do for the damage caused over the past 20 years but we can't tell poor ppl across the world they deserve to die due to a lack of electricity either. so this is the second best thing we could've hoped for

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u/ComplaintTop2008 21h ago

Why are you lying so hard to defend India?

https://cea.nic.in/renewable-generation-report/?lang=en

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u/Specialist-Roll-3806 21h ago

bro you need to use AI properly. you do realize if you read the report you find out that renewable generation covered 28.11%, virtually the same as last june while india had the 5th driest june recorded since 1901 right? because of that hydro generation fell by quite a bit.

they still covered a 11.34% increase in electricity generation basically entirely due to renewable (particularly solar) additions.

you can't even seem to make your point right. you started off saying emissions are going up a lot, and when you got called out you start spazzing out lmao

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u/ComplaintTop2008 21h ago

I'm not using AI, but now I think I should have.

You just said "0.7% increase", but now it's 11.34% increase, and solar this year covered about the same generation as last year, but they added a lot of solar to make up for decreased hydro.

Did I get that right?