India's electricity generation rose from 443.2 in 1996 to 2,082 in 2025.
India's primary energy consumption rose from 2,963 in 1995 to 11,336 in 2024.
India · Energy
Generation, consumption, mix, dependence and intensity.
26 indicators · 26 with data
India's electricity consumption per capita rose from 452.4 kWh in 1996 to 1,422 kWh in 2025.
India's solar electricity generation rose from 0.0 in 1996 to 196.0 in 2025.
India's wind electricity generation rose from 0.9 in 1996 to 104.0 in 2025.
India's hydropower electricity generation rose from 69.1 in 1996 to 178.0 in 2025.
India's nuclear electricity generation rose from 8.4 in 1996 to 53.8 in 2025.
India's energy use per capita rose from 3,085.6 kWh in 1995 to 7,812.9 kWh in 2024.
India's renewable energy fell from 51.5 % in 1992 to 34.9 % in 2021.
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- Renewable electricityup +4.3 pts60th of 90
- Fossil fuel electricity sharedown −4.2 pts66th of 90
- Low-carbon electricity shareup +4.2 pts66th of 90
- Hydropower electricity shareup +0.9 pts49th of 89
- Nuclear electricity sharedown −0.1 pts27th of 81
- Solar electricity shareup +2.4 pts36th of 90
- Wind electricity shareup +1.0 pts40th of 88
- Coal electricity sharedown −3.7 pts87th of 89
- Gas electricity sharedown −0.4 pts70th of 87
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- Energy importsdown −0.4 pts35th of 64
- Net electricity imports (% of demand)up +0.2 pts44th of 90
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- Energy intensity of GDPdown −1.4 %79th of 165
- Carbon intensity of electricitydown −5.0 %84th of 90
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- Access to electricity (% of population)up +0.4 pts123rd of 215
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- Oil productionup +1.0 %23rd of 50
- Gas productionup +2.4 %22nd of 49
- Coal productionup +7.3 %2nd of 34