Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah
has said that India is committed to increasing the share of renewable power in
the electricity mix to 15 per cent by the year 2020. He said an action plan has
already been developed that aims at accelerating the deployment of renewable
energy with a target of around 30 GW of renewable power by 2017. Dr. Abdullah
was addressing a distinguished gathering at the Institute of International and
European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin in Ireland yesterday.
