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India’s Renewable Curtailment Problem Is Real, China’s Is 43 Times Larger
['Arnes Biogradlija']
Energy News
In China’s most curtailment-intensive provinces, Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Gansu, solar curtailment reaches 10 to 17%, and analysts believe official figures understate actual losses.
India’s Curtailment: Concentrated, Traceable, and Funded for ResolutionIndia’s curtailment is not a problem to be dismissed, but its character differs from China’s in ways that matter for assessing risk.
Three different official sources produce three different national totals, indicating that India’s curtailment accounting framework is still developing methodological consistency.
India’s curtailment traces to a bottleneck that is narrow in time, geographically concentrated, and attributable to factors that funded solutions are already addressing.
India has not yet built the UHV-scale transmission infrastructure that China’s curtailment problem runs on.