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