Government plans to scale up renewable energy target to 227 GW by 2022

The government has announced plans to scale up the renewable energy target from 175 GW to 227 GW by March 2022 on the back of schemes such as floating solar, manufacturing-linked solar and offshore wind power. The new targets would be 113.49 GW from 100 GW for solar, 66.65 MW for wind, 5.98 MW for small hydro, 10.5 MW for biomass, and 31 MW for the offshore wind and floating solar segments.