NINA NETZER AND JOCHEN STEINHILBER(EDS.)| THE END OF NUCLEAR ENERGY? Currently, renewable energy is about 10 per cent of the current»energy basket«. The Electricity Act of 2003 mandates that state regulators prescribe a minimum level of renewable energy sources in the energy mix. This would mean that India’s share of renewable energy will rise rapidly in the years to come. By 2050 India’s share of renewable energy could easily be at least a quarter, if not more, of its extensive installed capacity. There are no serious objections to the advancement of renewable energy in India. In fact, there is almost unifor­mity in public and political opinions on the subject. The impediments come in the form of finance and technol­ogy and lack of scalability. Low-scale use is a root cause of high costs of such energy. With more and more dif­fusion of this technology, large-scale use of renewable energy will definitely happen. India has already begun to look at all possible options to promote clean energy, not as an alternate to nuclear energy but a parallel to it. Nuclear power in all likelihood will be put on the back burner and renewable energy will receive validation as a consequence of the accident in Japan. 44