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Green Grids: India’s Pathways and Asia’s Preparedness

Payal Dey examines India’s ambitious efforts to integrate renewable energy into its energy mix and explores the prospects for international grid integration to support the energy transition across Asia.
23 June 2026 by
Payal Dey

In 2013, India published a roadmap for the integration of renewables, along with corresponding assessments by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), in its twelfth and final five-year plan. In 2014, the plan-based approach was abandoned in favor of “cooperative federalism,” which included changes to the public financing mechanisms distributed between the central and state governments affecting the power sector. Despite an ambitious target for the energy mix, the portion of renewable energy (RE) sources in total power generation for the fiscal year 2012–13 was only 5%. This increased to 20% in May 2023. During the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), a global commitment was made to triple renewables by 2030 from the existing target of 2.5 times under ongoing policies and market structures.

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