Top 5 States in India with highest installed electricity generation capacity

The detailed breakup of the total installed capacity is given below;

Capacity in MW (As on Sep 2013);

Type	Maharashtra	Gujarat	Tamil Nadu	Andhra Pradesh	Uttar Pradesh
Coal	19,939	15,738	8,476	8,573	10,523
Gas	3,476	4,979	1,026	3,370	550
Diesel	-	17	412	37	-
Total Thermal	23,415	20,735	9,914	11,981	11,073
Nuclear	690	559	524	276	336
Hydro	3,332	790	2,182	3,735	1,847
RES*	4,497	4,042	7,491	1,184	824
Grand Total	31,934	26,126	20,112	17,175	14,079

Sector wise breakup is given below (Capacity in MW);

Sectors	Maharashtra	Gujarat	Tamil Nadu	Andhra Pradesh	Uttar Pradesh
State	12,269	6,887	7,594	9,050	5,472
Private	13,038	15,590	8,687	4,968	3,649
Central	6,627	3,650	3,830	3,157	4,958
Total	31,934	26,126	20,112	17,175	14,079

The state of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are highly industrialized. Therefore, their electricity demand is also higher than other states.

If we compare total installed electricity generation capacity with the population of respective states, then following results are arrived at

 

India is the world’s fifth largest electricity generator with total installed capacity of 2,28,722 MW.

 Out of this -

• 90,062 MW is from state owned utilities
• 72,927 MW is from privately owned utilities and 
• 65,733 MW is from central owned utilities

India derives most of its electricity from fossil fuels; primarily from coal (India has 20,381 MW of capacity on coal which is 59% of total capacity)

 India also derives considerable amount of electricity from hydro power sources.

Currently India has total of -

• 1,55,969 MW of installed capacity on thermal
•  39,788 MW of installed capacity on hydro
•  28,184 MW of installed capacity on Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and 
•  4,780 MW of installed capacity on nuclear.

 Thermal sources contribute 68% in the total capacity