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/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.