Still a good thing, but title is misleading. 40% of India’s electricity does not come from non-fossil fuel sources. Instead, 40% of their installed capacity is non-fossil-fuel based. There’s a big difference because of the expected capacity factor of wind farms and solar farms vs fossil fuel plants. Even if 40% of your installed capacity is solar, with a capacity factor of 50%, you may be getting only 20% of your Joules from solar (fossil fuel plants generally have very high capacity factors)
Great progress, but it seems like this is a moving target. As a rapidly developing country it’s unlikely renewable energy capacity will keep pace with total energy consumption
As someone else said, it is indeed a moving target, and achieving 40% now is not the same as 40% in 2030. A more clearer picture is presented in this article:<p><a href="https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/india-meets-target-of-producing-over-40-of-installed-power-through-non-fossil-fuels-in-2021-against-deadline-of-2030/article38058235.ece" rel="nofollow">https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/india-meets-target...</a><p>> India’s installed Renewable Energy (RE) capacity stands at 150.54 GW, which includes solar at 48.55 GW, wind (40.03 GW), small hydro power (4.83 GW), bio-power (10.62 GW) and large hydro power (46.51 GW) as of November 2021. The nuclear energy based installed electricity capacity stands at 6.78 GW.<p>> “In line with the Prime Minister’s announcement at the recently concluded CoP26, the Government is committed to achieving 500 GW of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by the year 2030,” the ministry added.