New Delhi, Nov. 3 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India's decade-long shift to renewable energy had helped the country sustain high economic growth despite global disruptions, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the West Asia crisis.

Inaugurating the Bharat Renewable Energy (BRE) Summit & Expo 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, Modi warned that continued over-reliance on fossil fuels would repeatedly disrupt the global economy. He said the future of energy security lay in clean energy and announced that India planned to install another 500 GW of non-fossil energy capacity over the next 10 to 11 years.

"The West Asia crisis is still ongoing. But 140 crore (1,400 million) Indians take pride in how effectively the nation ...