Today, India has 141 GW of installed capacity of Renewable Energy [RE] making it the fourth largest installed capacity globally – with fourth largest for wind and fifth largest for solar. The effort towards achieving this feat started long back in 1992, when India was one of the first countries to set up a Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, renamed the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy [MNRE] in 2006. This is a testimony to India's mission to propagate clean energy sources since the early days of sustainable development. The Government of India has since then taken multiple initiatives to promote generation and adoption of RE to fuel the country's growth and development. India has also set for itself, the world's largest RE expansion plan – achieving 175 GW by 2022 and 450 GW by 2030 in installed capacity. The RE installed capacity has already seen a 226 percent increase in the last 5 years.
*Large Hydro capacity as of May 31, 2021