Erratum: India's energy and emissions future: An interpretive analysis of model scenarios (Environ. Res. Lett. (2018) 13 (074018) DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aacc74)

Abstract

In our discussion of India's future coal power generation capacity, our text states that the paper by Sehgal and Tongia (2016) provides an estimate of India's coal capacity needs in 2020. However, the paper provides a supply side analysis of additional coal generation capacity in 2020, rather than a demand-side assessment of India's future coal capacity needs. The underlying point remains unchanged: studies such as that by Sehgal and Tongia's anticipate lower than planned future coal capacity additions, requiring less coal than the government's coal production target. To reflect a more accurate interpretation of the Sehgal and Tongia's paper, the sentence has been changed to read: 'thus, an independent bottom-up analysis anticipates a maximum addition of 81-110 GW between 2015 and 2020, which would require less coal than mooted in the government target (Sehgal and Tongia 2016, p 31)'.