Tamil Nadu and Karnataka remain key pillars of India’s clean energy growth

Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are leading the renewable energy growth in India with the two states accounting for a third of India’s new capacity addition as well as the generation of clean energy.

Though Tamil Nadu lost the top position in renewable energy capacity addition to Karnataka, the state leads in the generation of clean energy as of now.

During April-October 2019, the renewable sector in the country generated about 84,490 million units of energy, which was about 10 per cent of the total energy (include all sources) generated in the country during the period.

Tamil Nadu occupied the Number 1 position with 14,567 million units generation, followed by Karnataka at 14,554 million units during the period. Gujarat took the third position with the generation of 10,392 million units.