Climate change would probably impede India's solar and wind energy potential.
North India's seasonal and annual wind speed will likely decrease and increase in South India. According to the research 'Analysis of future wind and solar potential across India using climate models,' the southern coast of Odisha and the southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have promising wind energy potential in a climate change scenario.
Researchers utilised IPCC climate models to estimate wind and solar energy across the Indian subcontinent.
The forecasts are important because India has updated its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to fight climate change, incorporating two of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promises at the Glasgow conference — reducing GDP emissions intensity by 45% by 2030, from 2005 levels, and achieving about 50% cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2030.
Future forecasts show sun radiation decreasing in all seasons throughout much of India. For future investments in the solar power industry, central and south-central India must be explored during pre-monsoon months, since the potential loss is modest in these locations," it stated.
Regional wind potential research predicts that high energy-producing wind speeds will drop and low energy-producing wind speeds will rise.Current Issue
02-2026
