CRISIL the most reputed rating agency in the country, announced in its flagship India Infrastructure Conclave, its prediction that India’s green investments to shoot up to ₹31 lakh crore by 2030. Most of the investments will be directed toward renewable energy projects to meet the nation’s growing power and energy needs.
Green Investment Breakup
Around ₹19 lakh crore of the total ₹31 lakh crore to be invested in renewable energy and storage facility. The next ₹4.1 lakh crore will be invested in transport and automotive sectors that is electrical vehicles and similar products. Another ₹ 3.3 lakh crore to be vested into oil and gas.
As per CRISIL, this ₹31 lakh crore will be a significant part of the total $10 trillion green investment estimated for achieving the 2070 Net Zoro goal.
As per the MD & CEO of CRISIL, India being the fastest-growing large economy, it has plenty of room for balancing developmental growth with sustainable measures over the medium term. Mr. Mehta also commented that a balanced approach will be required from here to reach Net Zero as energy consumption will only increase in the future.
He also said that significant efforts have already been made to boost India’s green investment growth. This ₹31 lakh crore investment will help in scaling up blended finance initiatives to match the targets set by the government and corporates to achieve the Net zero goal. This investment will also boost industrial decarbonization initiatives along with the carbon market development initiatives.
Investment Attractiveness
CRISIL in its Infrastructure Yearbook 2025 has come up with CRISIL InfraInvex which is an index that measures the attractiveness of investment or investability quotient. This index has been calculated using data since 2017 from select infrastructure sectors. According to the index, the electric vehicle ecosystem and the mining industry witnessed a drop in investment attractiveness as well. The mining sector can gain from critical minerals while EV can gain from policy intervention that’s coming up.
The sectors that are becoming more attractive on the index on the basis of policy intervention, regulations, operations, finances, and sustainability. The sectors include renewable energy investment in India, investment in the energy sector
Including transmission, conventional generation, and distribution, and these sectors also help in improving policy framework.
Source: FortuneIndia
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