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Revision note: Energy Infrastructure: Power, Coal, Oil, Gas and Renewables

  • 3rd largest energy consumer; per capita electricity ~1,400 kWh; installed capacity ~500 GW; non-fossil > 50% of capacity (2025, early NDC achievement)
  • Targets: 500 GW non-fossil by 2030; net zero 2070
  • Coal: >1 bn t (2023–24); Gondwana; commercial mining 2020; CIL 1975
  • Oil: ~85–88% imported; SPR 5.33 MT (Visakhapatnam, Mangaluru, Padur); HELP 2016; E20 reached 2025; gas target 15% by 2030
  • Solar ~120 GW (Rajasthan leads), PM-KUSUM 2019, PM Surya Ghar Feb 2024; wind ~50 GW (TN, Gujarat); nuclear ~8.8 GW → 100 GW by 2047; NGHM Jan 2023 (5 MMT by 2030); ISA (Gurugram)
  • Discoms: AT&C ~16% (2024); UDAY 2015, RDSS 2021, LPS Rules 2022; national grid 2013
Revision card summarising Energy Infrastructure: Power, Coal, Oil, Gas and Renewables
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