Solar Energy Installed Capacity on 31st July 2017

The cumulative Solar Energy capacity installed, as on 31.07.2017, is 13652 MW while the same at the end of 2014-15 was 3743.97 MW. This was stated by Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy and Mines in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on 10th August 2017. 

The States of Andhra Pradesh(2048 MW), Gujarat(1262 MW), Karnataka(1260 MW), Madhya Pradesh(1116 MW), Rajasthan(2022 MW), Tamil Nadu(1697 MW) and Telangana (1609 MW) have crossed the solar installed capacity of 1 GW, as on 31.07.2017.