Demonising coal-fired power is a sport played by smug, well-fed Westerners – who’ve never lived a day without power, in their cosseted lives.
For the poorest energy-starved billions, a day with affordable power is a dream worth fighting for. The West’s prosperity was won with coal, a fact seemingly recognised by wind and solar-obsessed Brits and Germans, as they fire up the coal-fired plants that they had only recently deemed redundant.
Those same plants are central to the growth in prosperity among Asian economies, not least India.
With a population of 1.3 billion – and hundreds of millions of those screaming out for reliable and affordable electricity – which promises to lift them out of grinding agrarian poverty – India’s government is on a perfectly pragmatic path. Shunning intermittent and chaotic wind and solar, in the knowledge that the only way to deliver power 24/7, at a price that their…
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