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India adds 31.25 GW non-fossil capacity in this fiscal: Pralhad Joshi
Dec-08-2025

Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi has emphasized India’s historic clean energy expansion and said that India has recorded its highest-ever addition of non-fossil capacity in the current financial year at 31.25 GW, including 24.28 GW of solar. Highlighting the recent pace of renewable energy adopting, he indicated that the world achieved 2 terawatt (TW) by 2024. Of this, the world added 1 TW of renewable energy capacity in just 2 years (2023 and 2024), while it took nearly 70 years to reach 1 TW of renewable energy capacity in 2022. 

He emphasized that India is a key driver of this explosive global surge in renewable energy. He pointed that the country’s solar capacity has grown more than 4,500%, from 2.8 GW to around 130 GW. Further, India contributed 46 GW to global solar additions during 2022 and 2024 alone, becoming the third-largest contributor. 

The Minister noted that India holds the world’s fifth-largest coal reserves and is the second-largest consumer of coal. Even with this abundance, he pointed that the country is steadily balancing coal with renewable energy as the transition gathers pace. With global mechanisms now shaping industrial competitiveness, he said India’s shift towards renewable energy has become even more urgent and strategically important.

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