
Accelerating the Energy Transition Episode Episode 8 | Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Energy and Climate Innovation Editor at The Economist
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What Makes India a Holdout Right Now?
There is a very strong sense that india has lots of very, very poor people. On the other hand, there is a legitimate amount of subsistence poverty,. as well as energy poverty in india which needs to be addressed. They could use a trillion dollars in private sector investment and hopefully a lot of it will be in clean technologies. When huge wind an solar capacityi they could become a hydrogen super power. Given all of this, if they create the right kind of laws, regulatory regime, make it investor friendly then you could really see hundreds of millions of dollars certainly flowing to the indian pwer sector or economy.
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