The total installed power generation capacity in India as on 30 September, 2024 is 452,694.83 MW with sector wise & type wise break up as given below.[1]
For the state wise installed power generation capacity, refer to States of India by installed power capacity.
| Sector | Thermal (MW) |
Nuclear (MW) |
Hydro (MW) |
Renewable (MW) |
Total (MW) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coal | Lignite | Gas | Diesel | Sub-total thermal | |||||
| Central | 68020 | 3640 | 7237.91 | - | 78897.91 | 8180 | 15742.72 | 1632.30 | 104452.93 |
| State | 69977.5 | 1150 | 7012.05 | 280.31 | 78419.86 | - | 27254.45 | 2607.62 | 108281.93 |
| Private | 73032.01 | 1830 | 10568.24 | 308.89 | 85739.15 | - | 3931 | 150289.82 | 239959.97 |
| All India | 211029.51 | 6620 | 24818.21 | 589.20 | 243056.92 | 8180 | 46928.17 | 154529.74 | 452694.83 |
| Percentage | 46.62 | 1.46 | 5.48 | 0.13 | 53.69 | 1.81 | 10.37 | 34.13 | 100 |
Hydroelectric power plants with ≤ 25 MW generation capacity are included in Renewable category (classified as SHP - Small Hydro Project) .
The break up of renewable energy sources (RES) is:
- Solar power (90,762.12 MW)
- Wind power (47,362.93 MW)
- Biomass/cogeneration (10,724.46 MW)
- Small hydro (5,075.75 MW)
- Waste-to-energy (604.49 MW)
The following lists name many of the utility power stations in India.[2]
- ^ "Location wise regional summary of all India installed capacity (IN MW) of power stations as on 30/09/2024" (PDF). National Power Portal, GoI. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
- ^ "Complete list of working utility power stations in India" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-12-17.