# Nikhil Inamdar

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## Timeline

- **2026-09**: 300 GW installed renewable capacity achieved — India's installed renewable capacity reaches 300 GW, or 54% of the country's 552 GW total, five years ahead of schedule.
- **2026-07**: Second milestone: renewables meet half of peak demand again — On a hot July afternoon, renewable energy from solar, wind, hydro and nuclear sources briefly met over half of India's peak power demand for only the second time.
- **2026-03**: 300 GWh curtailed in Q1 2026 — Ember reports transmission constraints caused nearly two-thirds of all renewable energy curtailment in Q1 2026, totaling 300 gigawatt-hours of wasted clean power.
- **2025-07**: First milestone: renewables exceed half of peak demand — For the first time, renewable-generated electricity briefly met over half of India's peak power demand, a signal of the technology's growing centrality.
- **2016**: Renewable capacity at barely 4 GW — A decade before the report, India's installed renewable energy capacity stood at approximately 4 GW, underscoring the scale of the subsequent buildout.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### India wasted 300 GWh of green power in Q1 2026 as grid lags renewable boom
2026-09-23 00:39:35 · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

India hit a major decarbonization milestone with 300 GW of renewable capacity, 54% of its 552 GW total, achieved five years early. But grid constraints curtailed 300 GWh of clean power in Q1 2026 alone, with transmission bottlenecks responsible for two-thirds of the waste. The gap between generation and grid infrastructure is emerging as the single biggest threat to India's net-zero trajectory.
Full story: https://getclimatebrief.com/story/india-grid-curtailment-300gwh-q1-2026-climate

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