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Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer

Give an account of the development of renewable resources of India.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Resources

India's renewable endowment is set by latitude and peninsularity: about 300 clear sunny days, a global horizontal irradiance of 4-7 kWh per square metre per day, and a 11,098 km coastline exposed to two monsoon wind regimes.

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  • The resource base
  • The trajectory of development
  • Phase one — margins, 1980s to 2010
  • Phase two — the solar mission, 2010 to 2022
  • Phase three — scale, 2022 to 2026
  • Where development has failed

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