India’s power sector is showing a growth rate of approximately 7-8% annually, driven by a steady increase in electricity consumption – and significant capacity expansion, particularly in Renewable Energy (RE).
With this background, now it is truly a matter of pride for us that in the recent past our power sector has crossed two significant milestones. As of September 30, 2025, our total installed electricity capacity has crossed 500 GW. This achievement reflects years of strong policy support, investments and teamwork across the entire power sector.
Just to give a glimpse of our power capacity today, we have: non-fossil fuel sources (RE, hydro and nuclear): 256.09 GW – over 51% of the total capacity. Fossil-fuel-based sources: 244.80 GW – about 49% of the total capacity. Again within renewables, we have: solar capacity of 127.33 GW and wind capacity of 53.12 GW. In this financial year, so far (April 2025 onwards), we have successfully added 28 GW of non-fossil capacity – and 5.1 GW of fossil-fuel capacity.
Just to recollect: on July 29, we reached the highest-ever RE share in electricity generation. That day, renewables met 51.5% of the country’s total electricity demand of 203 GW. The break up figures are: Solar generation: 44.50 GW; Wind generation: 29.89 GW; and Hydro generation: 30.29 GW.
Thus, with those our country has already achieved one of its major COP 26 Panchamrit goals – to have 50% of installed electric power capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030 – five years early.
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