India achieves record renewable energy capacity

Latest data from India’s Central Electricity Authority (CEA) shows that India has added record 29.5 GW renewable energy (RE) capacity in the fiscal year (FY) 2025.

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Total RE capacity now stands at 220.1 GW, with major growth in solar manufacturing and storage projects supporting the 2030 goal of 500 GW clean energy, according to a Financial Express (FE) analysis. According to the CEA, a record 34,054 megawatts (MW) of capacity, from all sources, was added during FY25. India has already achieved an unprecedented level of solar installations in the first 11 months of FY25. As per the FE analysis, India added 29.52 gigawatt (GW) of renewable energy in the fiscal year 2024-25, a record annual capacity addition, taking the country's total installed renewable energy capacity to 220.10 GW as of March 31. In FY24, the country's installed RE capacity stood at 198.75 GW.

Among the renewable energy sources, solar energy contributed the highest to the year's capacity expansion with 23.83 GW added in the last fiscal, a significant increase over the 15.03 GW added in the previous year, as per official data. The total installed solar capacity now stands at 105.65 GW, including 81.01 GW from ground-mounted installations, 17.02 GW from rooftop solar, 2.87 GW from solar components of hybrid projects, and 4.74 GW from off-grid systems.