India added more than 34,000 megawatts (MW) or duration of the accumulated power capacity for fiscal year 2015, which is the highest in the last nine years.
Besids, the last financial year, completed in March 2025, ASO witnessed a record addition of renewable energy capacity of around 29,520 MW.
The conformity with the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), a record capacity of 34,054 megawatts (MW), of all sources, duration has been added for fiscal year 2015. It is the greatest achievement in a single year and exceeded the highest anterior of 31,118 MW for the fiscal year 2016.
Addition of registered capacity
The position was directed by renewable energy sources (RES) with a record addition of annual capacity of 29,520 MW that carries the total installed capacity of India to 220.10 Gigawatts (GW) at the end of March 2025. Around the sound of the same or thermal.
Solar energy contributed more to the expansion of capacity with 23.83 GW added in fiscal year 200, a significant increase over 15.03 GW added in the previous year. The total solar capacity is now 105.65 GW.
This includes 81.01 GW of facilities mounted on the ground, 17.02 GW ROOFTOP Solar, 2.87 GW of solar components of hybrid projects and 4.74 GW of systems outside the network.
Solar facilities in fiscal year 2015 were led by the launch of Prime Minister Surya Ghar Yojana on the solar roof, Momentum in the Green Open Access (OA) Market, acceleration of the tender at the scale of public services and the ease of implementation, said JM Financial.
Wind energy also witnessed the sustained progress doors of the year, with 4.15 GW of new aggregate capacity in fiscal year 2015. The total accumulated installed wind capacity has exceeded 50 GW-Milestone and is now 50.04 GW.
According to JM Financial, 70 percent of all solar facilities were in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra in fiscal year 2015. In the case of wind energy, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra represented 97.4 percent of the facilities in India.
Under Res, the bioenergy facilities reached 11.58 GW, which includes 0.53 GW of projects outside the network and energy waste. Small hydroelectric energy projects have reached a capacity of 5.10 GW, with another 0.44 GW under implementation.
India has 169.40 GW or RE under implementation, while 65.06 GW have already been offered.
The under implementation capacities include 65.29 GW of emerging solutions such as hybrid systems, 24 -hour power (RTC), peak power and thermal grouping projects + re. These initiatives represent a strategic change to guarantee the stability of the network and the reliable supply of renewable sources.
Challenges ahead
In the future, JM Financial said that solar facilities are linked to 25-30 GW during fiscal year 26, given excess generation during solar hours, the relucting of discoms to sign energy purchase agreements (PPA) for solar energy and the shortage of cells and modules of domestic content requirements (DCR) in the internal market.
It is expected that wind energy will accumulate its impulse and add the capacity of 5.5-6 GW driven by the increase in the focus on complex projects (RTC, Hybrid, FDRE) for the dispatchable power, added the broker.
Posted on April 14, 2025