The power sector, both conventional and renewables, witnessed poor capacity addition during 2018-19 after maintaining a strong momentum for a few years.
While renewables added more capacity than the conventional power segments for the second year in a row in 2018-19, both have seen a significant fall in their new capacity addition compared with 2017-18.
The renewable energy sector added a capacity of 8,532 MW to the grid, just about the 55 per cent of its target of 15,602 MW for 2018-19. In the previous two years, the renewable sector added new capacity in the range of 11,000-12,000 MW per year, supported by a boom in the solar power sector.
