India’s Race to 175 GW

As of March 2022, India had installed 110 GW of renewable energy (RE) capacity, representing 63% of its 175 GW target for December 2022. Progress is highly uneven across states; while Telangana, Rajasthan, Karnataka, and Andaman and Nicobar have surpassed their targets, 27 states and union territories have achieved less than 50% of their goals. Five states—Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu—account for two-thirds of the national shortfall. Recent growth has been heavily concentrated in Rajasthan and Gujarat, which together provided 73% of new RE capacity between October 2021 and March 2022. To meet the 2030 target of 450 GW RE, India requires an average annual addition of 42.5 GW.

• By March 2022, India's installed renewable energy capacity (excluding large hydro) was 110 GW, which is 63% of the 175 GW target set for December 2022.
• Progress toward the 2022 targets is unevenly distributed across India's regions: 27 states and union territories have not yet reached 50% of their targets, whereas four entities—Telangana, Rajasthan, Karnataka, and Andaman and Nicobar—have already surpassed them.
• Five states are primarily responsible for the national shortfall: Maharashtra (11 GW), Uttar Pradesh (10 GW), Andhra Pradesh (9 GW), Madhya Pradesh (7 GW), and Tamil Nadu (5 GW). Four of these five states added less than 0.5 GW of new renewables between October 2021 and March 2022.
• New capacity additions are heavily concentrated in two states; Rajasthan and Gujarat accounted for 73% of India's new RE capacity from October 2021 to March 2022, with Rajasthan adding approximately 4.8 GW and Gujarat adding 1.8 GW.
• To reach the 2030 target of 450 GW of renewable energy, India must add an average of 42.5 GW per year for the next eight years, requiring solar capacity to increase to 280 GW and wind to 140 GW.

APA

Lolla, A., Zieliński, M., Ewen, M., Edianto, A. S., & Jones, D. (2022). India’s Race to 175 GW. Ember. https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2024/10/Indias-Race-to-175-GW.pdf

Chicago

Lolla, Aditya, Maciej Zieliński, Matt Ewen, Achmed Shahram Edianto, and Dave Jones. India’s Race to 175 GW. Ember, 2022. https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2024/10/Indias-Race-to-175-GW.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{lolla2022indias, author = {Lolla, Aditya and Zieliński, Maciej and Ewen, Matt and Edianto, Achmed Shahram and Jones, Dave}, title = {{India’s Race to 175 GW}}, institution = {Ember}, year = {2022}, month = apr, url = {https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2024/10/Indias-Race-to-175-GW.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }