Electricity in India

Will you please give here detail about the Captive Electricity Generation and installed utility Electricity generation capacity in India ?

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Utility electricity sector in India had an installed capacity of 288 GW as of 31 January 2016. Gross electricity generated by utilities is 1,106 TWh and 166 TWh by captive power plants during the 2014–15 fiscal.

Captive Power Generation

Source Captive Power Capacity (MW) Share
Coal 27,588 58.60%

Hydroelectricity 83 0.17%

Renewable energy source Included in 'Oil'
Natural Gas 5,215 11.08%

Oil 14,196 30.17%

Total 47,082 100.00%

Total installed utility power generation capacity as on 31 March 2015 :

Sector Coal Gas
Central 48,130.00 7,519.73
State 58,100.50 6,974.42
Private 58,405.38 8,568.00
All India 164,635.88 23,062.15

Sector Diesel Nuclear
Central 0 5,780.00
State 602.61 0
Private 597.14 0
All India 1,199.75 5,780.00

Sector Hydro RES
Central 11,091.43 0
State 27,482.00 3,803.67
Private 2,694.00 31,973.29
All India 41,267.43 35,776.96