India is facing widespread coal shortages, highlighting a weakness in its energy mix. Both micro and macro solar projects could help free India from fossil fuels. India’s ambitious approach to solar power is promising, but challenges will remain in the near-term. The Indian economy may be languishing under the pressure of coal shortages at present, but the subcontinent is betting its future on solar. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes lofty pledges at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, however, India continues to ramp up coal production back at home. A tale of two Indias is unfolding: one that is at the cutting edge of renewable energy technology and is building some of the most ambitious solar projects in the world at both macro- and micro- scales, and another that is entirely beholden to fossil fuels to meet its ever-growing energy demand. India’s current goals, as avowed before the […]