India connected 3,692 MW of renewable capacity in September, which works out to roughly 120 MW, or one mid-sized solar park, every day of the month. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) data put the total for April to September, the first half of fiscal 2026-27, at 24,558 MW. The figures that matter most are below.
3.69 GW: the September haul
Solar contributed 3,011.41 MW and wind 680.75 MW. There were no additions from biomass, waste-to-energy or small hydro. That was slightly below August, when solar and wind additions came to 3,828.73 MW.
24.56 GW: the half-year total, with a caveat
The headline figure includes 650 MW of large hydro. Excluding large hydro, additions were 23,908 MW. Both numbers are in MNRE’s table.
85%: solar’s share
Of the 24.56 GW, 20.79 GW came from solar and 3.11 GW from wind. Cumulative solar capacity now stands at 171.05 GW, about 57% of all renewable capacity.
299.25 GW: total renewable capacity
Including large hydro, capacity reached 299.25 GW on 30 September, of which 247.18 GW came from sources other than large hydro. The 300 GW mark is now 0.75 GW away. Adding nuclear’s 8.78 GW takes non-fossil capacity to 308.03 GW.
3.11 GW: wind’s progress against its target
Rajesh Kulhari, a joint secretary at MNRE, said India is on track for 7.5 to 8 GW of wind additions in 2026-27. With 3.11 GW installed so far, that implies roughly 4.4 to 4.9 GW over the next six months. September’s 680.75 MW is well above August’s 383 MW, but both are small next to the monthly solar numbers.
55.3 GW: last year’s benchmark
India added 55.3 GW of non-fossil capacity in 2025-26, the highest annual increase on record. That figure includes sources beyond the 24.56 GW counted here, so the two are not a like-for-like comparison.
The half-year numbers show a build-out driven overwhelmingly by solar, with wind running behind its official target. The government’s goal is 500 GW of non-fossil capacity by 2030. Against the 308 GW installed, a gap of about 192 GW remains, and no official schedule in the sources reviewed shows how much of it falls in each year.
