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India’s Solar Park Installed Capacity Crosses 12 GW: Here’s How States Have Fared

India has installed 12,396 MW of solar capacity across 24 parks under the Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects scheme, out of a total of 39,958 MW sanctioned across 55 parks in 13 states. It has been lagging behind and in the last 1 year, only 1,820 MW has been added.

April 03, 2025. By Mrinmoy Dey

Solar projects of cumulative capacity of 12,396 MW have been installed in 24 solar parks under the ‘Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects’ scheme, stated Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy and Power Shripad Yesso Naik in the Rajya Sabha.

He further stated that a total of 39,958 MW spread across 55 solar parks in 13 states have been sanctioned under the scheme. “The major benefits of the Solar Park scheme are assured availability of land and transmission infrastructure. This facilitates the solar project developers to set up large-scale projects in the solar parks,” said Naik.

As per the data published by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) as of February 28, 2025, Andhra Pradesh leads with 3,187 MW of installed capacity accounting for about 25.71 percent of total capacity installed so far in solar parks across India.

Rajasthan follows with 2,741 MW of installed capacity accounting for about 22.11 percent. Madhya Pradesh is in third place with an installed capacity of 2,313 MW (18.66 percent of the total) and is followed by Karnataka with an installed capacity of 2,000 MW accounting for about 16.13 percent of the total.

As for, sanctioned capacity, Gujarat has been sanctioned 11,150 MW, followed closely by Rajasthan (10,276 MW). Andhra Pradesh comes a distant third with 4,200 MW. However, both Gujarat and Rajasthan are lagging in installed to sanctioned ratio – 8.97 percent and 26.67 percent, respectively.

Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka have made signification progress with their installed-to-sanction ratio being at 75.88 percent, 62.01 percent and 80 percent, respectively.

Overall, 12,396 MW of the total 39,958 MW has been installed so far across India representing about 31 percent of the total sanctioned capacity.

However, the overall progress in the last one year has been rather slow with only 1,820 GW of capacity being added. Interestingly, Madhya Pradesh alone accounted for 1,313 MW out of this. Gujarat and Rajasthan – states with the highest allocations saw very little progress. While Gujarat added 100 MW, Rajasthan added 176 MW.

However, on a positive note, the slow pace of development in solar parks had little bearing on the overall solar capacity addition which crossed 100 GW recently. It seems that India has moved beyond their critical need.

Falling solar costs since 2014, when the solar park scheme was introduced, have driven private sector growth, reducing reliance on government initiatives. Solar parks now mainly serve states with land, terrain, or infrastructure challenges, with PSUs leading their development. Meanwhile, large private developers are expanding independently, which is a positive shift.

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