In the first half of the year, India added 7.8GW of new power generation capacity, with renewable energy accounting for 58%

In the first half of this year, India accounted for 58% of the country's new renewable energy capacity, especially solar and wind power generation
.

In the first half of this year, solar power technology contributed the most
to India's new generation capacity.
Solar accounted for 3.
5 GW of the 7.
8 GW of new capacity added between January and June 2019
.

Specifically, India added 7.
8 GW of new power generation capacity from January to June, up 59% year-on-year from the second half of last year, but up 39%
from the same period last year.
Typically, there is a significant increase in new capacity added in the first half of each year, as the first three months of this period are the last quarter of the Indian fiscal year, and project developers compete to commission any pending projects
before the end of each monthly financial year.

As of the end of June 2019, India's installed capacity was 358.
9 GW
.

In the first half of this year, India's new capacity included 3.
3 GW of fossil fuel power generation capacity, accounting for 42% of the total addition, and all of it came from coal power, and there was no new capacity
in diesel and natural gas.
The increase in coal power was mainly concentrated in
March.

The share of new fossil fuel generation is up from 10% in the second half of last year, another high share since the first half of 2016
.

At the end of June 2019, the capacity of fossil-fuel-based technologies (coal, gas and diesel) was 226 GW, accounting for just over 63%
of the country's total installed capacity.

From January to June, India added 3.
5 GW of new grid-connected solar capacity, which is an increase of 3 GW net increase in the second half of last year, but far below the all-time high of 6 GW in the first half of last year
.

In the wind sector, India added 1.
2 GW of capacity, accounting for 16%
of the total capacity in the first half of 2019.
It was only 800 megawatts
in the second half of last year.

As of the end of June 2019, the total installed capacity of all renewable energy technologies was close to 80.
5 GW, accounting for 22.
4%
of the total installed capacity.
Other technologies (i.
e.
nuclear and large hydro, i.
e.
with a capacity of more than 25 MW) accounted for 14.
5%
of the total installed capacity.