PURI : India has recorded its highest-ever non-fossil capacity addition of 31.25 Gigawatts (GW), including 24.28 GW of solar energy in the current fiscal, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Prahlad Joshi said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Addressing the inaugural session of the three-day Global Energy Leaders Summit 2025 in Puri, Joshi also announced 1.5 lakh rooftop solar units for Odisha, which would benefit over seven lakh people in the State, particularly from economically weaker sections. The units would be provided under the New Utility-Led Aggregation Model of the PM Surya Ghar Yojana, which is consumer-owned.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the last 11 years, the country\u2019s solar capacity has grown from 2.8 GW to around 130 GW, a rise of more than 4,500%. Between 2022 and 2024 alone, India contributed 46 GW to global solar additions, becoming the third-largest contributor,\u201d Joshi said. <\/p>\n
He added that this surge has made India a key driver of global renewable expansion. \u201cAfter taking nearly 70 years to reach 1 Terawatt (TW) of renewable energy capacity in 2022, the world achieved 2 TW by 2024, adding the second terawatt in just two years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
India holds the world\u2019s fifth-largest coal reserves and is the second-largest consumer of coal. \u201cEven with this abundance, India is steadily balancing coal with renewable energy as the transition gathers pace. With global mechanisms now shaping industrial competitiveness, India\u2019s shift towards renewable energy has become even more urgent and strategically important,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PURI : India has recorded its highest-ever non-fossil capacity addition of 31.25 Gigawatts (GW), including 24.28 GW of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,2344,111,139,69,5965,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-172010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-india","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-renewable-energy","14":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}