“While these projects are multi-year efforts, once operational they will unlock over 200 GW of new renewable capacity. The current stage is therefore temporary – a transition lag, not a structural ceiling,” it said.
The government is prioritising investment in transmission infrastructure through the Green Energy Corridors and new high-capacity transmission lines from Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Ladakh, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said on Wednesday.
“While these projects are multi-year efforts, once operational they will unlock over 200 GW of new renewable capacity. The current stage is therefore temporary – a transition lag, not a structural ceiling,” it said.Transmission has emerged as the new frontier, the Ministry said, adding India’s grid is being reimagined through the Rs 2.4 lakh crore Transmission Plan for 500 GW, linking renewable-rich states with demand centres.The government has already planned for building HVDC corridors and boosting inter-regional transmission capacity from 120 GW today to 143 GW by 2027, and 168 GW by 2032.
Additionally, the recent amendments to the CERC General Network Access (GNA) Regulations, 2025 have significantly improved the outlook for transmission readiness. The introduction of time-segmented access – ‘solar-hours’ and ‘non-solar-hours’ – allows dynamic sharing of corridors between solar, wind, and storage projects, unlocking idle capacity and easing congestion in renewable energy-rich states. Provisions for source flexibility, stricter connectivity norms, and greater substation-level transparency further streamline grid access and curb speculative allocations.
These reforms mark a decisive step toward optimising transmission utilisation and fast-tracking stranded renewable projects, directly addressing one of the sector’s core implementation challenges.
“In the last decade, India’s renewable energy capacity has grown more than fivefold, from under 35 GW in 2014 to over 197 GW (excluding large hydro) today,” the Ministry said.
Such exponential growth inevitably reaches a point where the next leap requires not just more megawatts, but deeper system reforms. The sector has entered that phase, where the focus is shifting from capacity expansion to capacity absorption.
“We are now dealing with grid integration, energy storage, hybridisation, and market reforms, the real foundations for a 500 GW plus non-fossil future. In that sense, the recent moderation in capacity addition is a recalibration, a necessary pause to ensure that future growth is stable, dispatchable, and resilient,” the Ministry said.