The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) will hold the annual International Conference on Green Hydrogen (ICGH-2025) in New Delhi on November 11 and 12. This is the third edition of the conference and “builds on the success of the second edition”, held in November 2024.
“The two-day conference will feature plenary sessions, expert panels and technical discussions focused on building a resilient green hydrogen ecosystem,” MNRE says in a note inviting participation.
Record RE capacity addition
The 2025-26 period is heading for a record in renewable energy installations. In the first six months of the financial year, 3,089 MW of wind capacity was added. Since there are usually more installations in the second half of the year than the first, it is likely the country will see wind capacity additions of 6 GW — the highest ever — as pointed out recently by Minister for New and Renewable Energy Prahlad Joshi, in Chennai. As for solar, installations in the first half of the year reached a record 21,686 MW, and 1,27,332 MW by September end.
Non-fossil fuel capacity stood at 2,56,089 MW, which is 51.12 per cent of the country’s power capacity of 5,00,889 MW. Also, renewable and nuclear accounted for 32 per cent of power generation, with coal making up the rest.
RE race: Maharashtra pips TN
Maharashtra has overtaken Tamil Nadu in total installed renewable energy capacity, pushing the southern State to the 4th spot.
Rajasthan with 40,407 MW and Gujarat with 40,020 MW occupy the first two positions. Maharashtra, with 27,674 MW, has breezed past Tamil Nadu (26,589 MW). Karnataka, which has 25,500 MW, is all set to displace Tamil Nadu at the 4th position, because the State has 18,775 MW of RE projects under construction, compared with Tamil Nadu’s 1,043 MW, according to data provided by the Central Electricity Authority.
IEA flags slowing efficiency
Two years ago, at COP28 in Dubai, nearly 200 governments recognised the central role of efficiency, agreeing on the goal of doubling the average annual rate of global energy efficiency improvements to 4 per cent per year by 2030.
The latest data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that, in recent years, rather than growing towards the 4 per cent goal, global efficiency progress has slowed, notes Brian Motherway, Head of Energy Efficiency and Inclusive Transitions Office, IEA.
The average annual improvement since 2019 is only 1.3 per cent, well below the starting point for the doubling goal. “We expect to see that rise to about 1.8 per cent this year, which is a small step in the right direction, but the world is still well off-track to meeting the 2030 goal,” he says in an article.
Motherway further notes that two years ago, IEA analysis had shown that the goal was achievable. Over the first 20 years of this century, energy efficiency improvements, as measured by the rate of change in primary energy intensity, had followed a steady trend, accelerating from an average of around 1 per cent per year from 2000 to 2009 to about 2 per cent per year from 2010 to 2019. Technologies and policies already existed to double that rate of progress, but that has not happened.
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Published on November 10, 2025
