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CY25: India Adds 29.4 GW Of Solar Power In First 9 Months Photograph: (Archive)
Indian renewable sector seems to have further picked up pace in 2025. A comparison of government data, issued by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), claimed that in the initial nine months of calendar year 2025, India’s solar and wind energy generation has far exceeded the records it created last year during the same period.
Latest data from the MNRE revealed that India added a total of 29.4 GW of solar energy in the first nine months of 2025. This was an 86.9% jump from the solar energy the country added during the same period in 2024.
On the other hand, the country was able to add a total of 4.9 GW of wind energy during the first nine months of 2025, from January to September. This also hinted at a surge of installations this year. India had added merely 2.6 GW of wind energy during the same period in 2024, thus marking a rise of 88.8% in the same period this year.
With the latest addition of wind and solar energy, India’s cumulative renewable energy (excluding large hydro) installations during these nine months stood at 34.72 GW, against a total installation of 20.64 GW during 2024, reporting a 68% rise in total renewable energy installations in the country.
In the fiscal year 2025-26, India has added a total of 21.6 GW of solar energy and 3 GW of wind energy during the first six months of the financial year. Last year, the country had added a total of 25 GW of solar energy alone. With the accelerated pace of solar and wind energy installations, it is now likely that the total solar and wind energy installations in fiscal year 2025-26 could surpass last year’s figures. As installations often pick up in Q2, Q3, and Q4, we might see the annual solar energy capacity surpass 30 GW for the first time in India.
A large chunk of solar and renewable energy installations this year could also be attributed to the deadline of ISTS charge exemptions, which were valid for clean energy projects, and the ease of availability of solar modules due to increased domestic solar module manufacturing capacity.