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As of October 2025, what was India's total installed electricity generation capacity?

Correct answer: (C) 505 GW.

As of 31 October 2025, India’s total installed electricity generation capacity was 505 GW, or 5,05,023 MW.

  1. (A)

    400 GW

  2. (B)

    450 GW

  3. (C)

    505 GW

  4. (D)

    600 GW

Explanation

PIB’s Ministry of Power release states that, as on 31 October 2025, India’s installed generation capacity stood at 5,05,023 MW, which rounds to 505 GW. The break-up explains why option C is the only defensible figure: fossil-fuel sources accounted for 2,45,600 MW, while non-fossil sources accounted for 2,59,423 MW. Within non-fossil capacity, renewable energy sources contributed 2,50,643 MW, including 2,00,295 MW from wind, solar and other renewable sources; solar alone was 1,29,924 MW and wind was 53,600 MW. The same release links this capacity mix to India’s stated commitment to reach 500 GW of non-fossil energy capacity by 2030.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (A) 400 GW is too low because PIB gives the actual installed capacity on 31 October 2025 as 5,05,023 MW, roughly 505 GW.
  • (B) 450 GW understates the figure; the official total had already crossed 5 lakh MW by the stated date.
  • (D) 600 GW overstates the official number, which was 5,05,023 MW rather than 6 lakh MW.

Concept

This tests current energy-infrastructure data under India’s power-sector and climate-commitment themes. RAS often asks such figures because they connect economic development, renewable capacity and India’s NDC-linked targets.

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