India Is Electrifying Faster Than China Using Cheap Green Tech

Re:India Is Electrifying Faster Than China Using Cheap Green... by toomuchtodo on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:58AM (#46720035)

Words are cheap, trajectories are real. You are entitled to your opinion, but the facts are clean energy trajectories are locked in by economics and manufacturing curves (production, cost, and learning rates).

Modi is 75, he will be replaced eventually with someone new (if only out of life expectancy), and so stated policy through 2050 is not a predicator.

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Re:India Is Electrifying Faster Than China Using Cheap Green... by alephnerd on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:01AM (#46720078)

But actions are not [0]. India does not view fossil fuels and cleantech as a zero-sum game.

Choosing to ignore the Indian trend of expanding both renewable and fossil fuel capacity is ridiculous.

> Modi is 75, he will be replaced eventually with someone new (if only out of life expectancy)

Modi is expected to remain in office til 2034 [1], and his parents lived into their 90s.

> so stated policy through 2050 is not a predicator.

It is in India, which operates on 5 year plans like China. The current reshoring of fossil fuels is itself due to China's weaponization of export controls [2].

ClimateTech will and is dramatically expanding in India, but India will continue to use fossil fuels as a backstop as long as China remains a national security threat to India.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

[1] - https://theprint.in/opinion/why-pm-modi-has-staked-claim-for...

[2] - https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/cag/publications/center-publicatio...

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