Renewable Energy Please make a selection
Correct Answer
9%
In 2021 for India, close to 9% of all electricity generated (not capacity!) was from solar & wind power together - with each contributing roughly half (4.5%)
For the Curioscenti, here are the details
This report says India generated about 70 billion units of solar in 2021, an 18% increase over the previous year. In all, India generated about 1600 billion units of electricity in 2021.
That would mean that about 4.5% of all power generated in 2021 was solar.
Now, if you thought 4.5% was small, consider these:
By 2030, expect solar to be a contributing a lot more to the Indian electricity demand, and could even be close on heels of - or even overtaking - large hydro power contribution, the largest RE sector by contribution right now, and which according to estimates is about 10% of total power generation right now - around 150 billion KWh (units) per year.
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