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As of Q2 2020, India's Cumulative Installed Solar Capacity Reached 36.9GW
According to data from India's Central Energy Authority and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, India's renewable energy share (including large hydropower projects) rose slightly to 36.3% in the second quarter of 2020, up about 0.1% from the previous quarter.India's total installed capacity also rose slightly to 372.9GW this quarter from about 372.1GW in the first quarter of 2020.
As of the end of this quarter, the cumulative installed capacity of renewable energy projects (excluding large hydropower projects) was 89.53GW, accounting for 24% of the total market share, an increase from 88.9GW (23.9%) in the previous quarter. Around the same period last year, India's cumulative installed capacity of renewable energy (excluding large hydropower) was 82.4GW, accounting for 22.8% of the total share.
This includes the installed capacity of solar power generation (9.9%), wind power generation (10.1%), biomass power generation (2.7%), small hydropower projects (1.3%) and waste power generation projects (0.04%).
As of the end of the second quarter of 2020, India's cumulative installed solar capacity was 36.9GW, accounting for 9.6% of the total. According to the Mercom India Solar Project Tracker, India's cumulative installed solar capacity is about 37GW. Wind power installed capacity has almost stagnated, with negligible growth. The total installed wind power capacity is 37.8GW (10.1%), compared with 37.7GW (10.1%) in the previous quarter.
In the second quarter of 2020, India's wind power project installed capacity was 136MW, down 82% from 743MW in the same period last year and 28% from 187MW in the previous quarter. Gujarat and Karnataka were the only Indian states to increase wind power capacity this quarter.
As of the end of the second quarter of 2020, large hydropower projects accounted for 12.3% of the country's total installed capacity, the highest share of renewable energy generation. At the same time, the proportion of small hydropower, biomass power generation and waste power generation projects remained the same as the previous quarter, at 1.3%, 2.7% and 0.04% respectively.
Thermal power generation remains the main source of electricity in India, with an installed capacity of 237.8GW at the end of the second quarter of 2020, up from 237.5GW at the end of the previous quarter. However, the overall share of thermal-based electricity sources fell slightly from 63.8% to 63.7%. Power sources in this area include coal (53.31%), natural gas (6.7%), lignite (1.82%) and diesel (0.14%).
Coal-fired power still accounts for the largest share of the country's electricity sources, with an installed capacity of about 198.8GW, up from 198.5GW previously. The share of coal-fired power fell slightly from 53.4% in the previous quarter to 53.3% at the end of the second quarter of 2020.
Gas-fired power projects rose from 24.96GW in the previous quarter to 24.99GW in the second quarter of 2020.
At the same time, nuclear power, lignite and diesel power generation had no new capacity in the second quarter of 2020, remaining the same as the previous quarter, at 6.8GW, 6.6GW and 510MW respectively.
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