of India’s electricity came from non-fossil sources. A year earlier, it was 25.2%.
Every unit, counted: from the bill on your fridge to the national grid, with every number sourced.
Share of utility generation, FY2025-26, excluding imports from Bhutan. Source: Central Electricity Authority.
Each square is one in a hundred units generated in FY2025-26.
Clean power is growing fast.
Four readings from official data, each with its source and method on the tracker page.
FY2025-26 against FY2024-25, financial years. Source: CEA. Ember’s calendar-year figure for 2025 is 37%; the periods and sources differ.
See units by yearAs of 30 September 2026, including large hydro. Source: MNRE.
Open the trackerUnder PM Surya Ghar, as of 5 November 2026. Source: national portal.
Open the trackerOctober 2026, battery-electric only. Source: Vahan.
Open the trackerClean units rose from 294 to 475 billion in six years.
Show the numbers
| Year | Bio | Solar | Wind | Small hydro | Large hydro | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2019-20 | 13.74 | 50.13 | 64.65 | 9.45 | 155.77 | 293.74 |
| FY2020-21 | 14.82 | 60.40 | 60.15 | 10.26 | 150.30 | 295.93 |
| FY2021-22 | 16.06 | 73.48 | 68.64 | 10.46 | 151.63 | 320.27 |
| FY2022-23 | 16.02 | 102.01 | 71.81 | 11.17 | 162.10 | 363.11 |
| FY2023-24 | 14.24 | 115.98 | 83.39 | 9.49 | 134.05 | 357.15 |
| FY2024-25 | 13.07 | 144.15 | 83.35 | 11.57 | 148.63 | 400.77 |
| FY2025-26 | 14.08 | 174.76 | 106.70 | 12.01 | 167.20 | 474.75 |
Renewable generation in billion units (BU), including large hydro. Source: Central Electricity Authority, renewable generation reports. The amber point marks the latest year.
Progress is real. So is what’s left.
The faster India switches, the more CO2 it keeps out of the air. Both paths below are published by the IEA; the gap between them is what waiting costs.
CEA generation × CEA grid factor, FY2025-26.
IEA, World Energy Outlook 2024, Table A.30 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). CEA CO2 Baseline Database v22.0, weighted-average all-India grid factor, FY2025-26: 0.675 tCO2/MWh, which is 675 g per unit.
The two sides come from different sources and years (CEA for FY2025-26, IEA for calendar 2023) and count emissions differently, so they show scale, not a balance to subtract.
Show the numbers
| Year | Current pace (Mt) | Faster shift (Mt) |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1,424 | 1,424 |
| 2030 | 1,579 | 1,442 |
| 2035 | 1,402 | 982 |
| 2050 | 838 | 329 |
Power-sector CO2, million tonnes a year. Source: IEA, World Energy Outlook 2024, Table A.30 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0): Stated Policies (current pace) and Announced Pledges (faster shift).
On the current pace, power-sector emissions peak and fall slowly. A faster shift, set out in the same report, cuts them by more than half again. The shaded gap is CO2 India can still avoid.
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What the numbers mean for you.
Our estimate for 2025-26 is 320 million tonnes of carbon dioxide avoided including large hydro, or 207.6 million without it, and this is exactly how we worked it out.
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