Solar power in Gujarat

Solar power in Gujarat, a state of India, is a fast developing industry given that the large state is mostly arid. It was one of the first states to develop solar generation capacity in India.

As of June 2024, total installed solar power generation capacity of the state was 14,182 MW.

State solar policy

As of May 2026, Gujarat has an installed renewable energy capacity of 50,386 MW, including 32,302.7 MW of solar power (of which 7,408.10 MW is rooftop solar) and 15,850.56 MW of wind power. Under the Scheme for Development of solar parks and Ultra-mega Solar Power Projects is underway with a target of setting up to 40,000 MW of Solar capacity.

In addition to the existing solar power policy, the state has also come out with a solar-wind hybrid policy, looking to establish four-five such parks with at least 2000 MW capacity.

Total installed solar power generation capacity of the state increased from 4,431 MW in March 2021 to 7,180 MW in March 2022.

Rooftop solar

Total rooftop solar power installation capacity of state is 3455.90 MW, as of April 2024. Gujarat is a top performing state in India in respect to rooftop solar.

Location of Solar parks

+ Solar power plants across the stateGujarat Solar Power PlantsSolar PV Plants Commissioned in GujaratLocation DistrictSite co-ordinatesNominal Power (MWp) Production(Annual GW·h)DeveloperNotesRajuvadiaNarmada R8FQ+34, Rajuvadia, Gujarat 39312016 -Bhaarat spinning mills solar parkNizarTapi21°28'26.8"N 74°10'30.5"E9.3 -KPI Green EnergyNetrangBharuch21°39'14.0"N 73°22'04.2"E9.4 -KPI Green EnergyBhersamBharuch22.4 -KPI Green EnergyKhavdaKachchh240 -KPI Green EnergyOraBharuch30 -KPI Green EnergyOchhanBharuch17 -KPI Green EnergySarodBharuch16 -KPI Green EnergySamojBharuch56 -KPI Green EnergyShahpuraBharuch19.8 -KPI Green EnergyBhensaliBharuch5.2 -KPI Green EnergyJhanorBharuch2.7 -KPI Green EnergyTanchhaBharuch17 -KPI Green EnergyVagraBharuch10.5 -KPI Green EnergyMulerBharuch9.9 -KPI Green EnergyKurchanBharuch18 -KPI Green EnergyVedchaBharuch 21.5 -KPI Green EnergySudiBharuch100 -KPI Green EnergyNamalpurNarmada22°00'13.2"N 73°38'02.0"E8.6 -KPI Green EnergyKundani/JasdanRajkot22°07'27.3"N 71°09'14.4"E5 -KPI Green EnergyVilayatBharuch21°46'00.7"N 72°52'28.8"E12.7 -KPI Green EnergyDhrangadhraSurendranagar23°01'07.2"N 71°26'29.8"E10 -KPI Green EnergyMoti GidasanBanas Kantha23°59'15.9"N 72°28'54.7"E4.4 -KPI Green EnergyJarsadBharuch21°47'51.9"N 73°11'42.4"E11.2 -KPI Green EnergyBhalodVadodara21°49'33.3"N 73°10'25.4"E11.8 -KPI Green EnergyVilayat Hybrid66KVBharuch21°45'38.7"N 72°51'42.2"E31.4 -KPI Green EnergyVagra Hybrid66KVBharuch21°52'18.7"N 72°51'35.7"E16 -KPI Green EnergyKanvaBharuch21°36'04.0"N 72°54'17.7"E4 -KPI Green EnergyJhanorBharuch21°50'09.3"N 73°07'01.8"E0.2 -KPI Green Energy Jafrabad Amreli 5 8.322 Sunkon Energy Solar power project in Gujarat, India Wadgam Anand 15 25.846 Acme Tele Power Isanpur Anand 1 1.533 Harsha Engineers GunthawadaSolar power plant in Ahmedabad Asia's biggestMoser Baer Clean Energy Limited commissions largest solar power capacityGunthawada, India15MWp Solar PV Power Project in Village Gunthavada (Dalpatpura), Taluk Kankarej, District-Banaskantha, Gujarat State, India Banaskantha PDD 15.2 26.28 Precious (Moser Baer) Commissioned 11 October 2011 Gunthawada Banaskantha 15 25.9 Solitaire (Moser Baer) Commissioned 11 October 2011, with Precious cost Rs 465 crore, area 305 acre, 236,000 Thin Film modulesMoser Baer commissions 30-MW solar farm in Gujarat Dhanera Banaskantha 25 45.377 Sand Land Real Estate Bharuch 1 MBH Power Gandhinagar 1 GSEC-TPS Gandhinagar 1 PDPU-GPCL-GEDA 250 kW from Thin-Film, 750 kW from Poly-crystalline solar cells. Mithapur Jamnagar 25.0 Tata Power Commissioned 25 January 2012 Shiloj Junagadh PDD 10 19.585 Mono Steel Solar Output decreases 0.7%/year from 20 GWh BittaAdani Power to invest Rs 3,000 cr in solar power Kutch PDD 40.0 66.576 Adani Power Completed January 2012 using 400,000 modules.Adani Group commissions largest solar power project Completed in 150 days at a cost of Rs 400 crore. (6760 million INR) 100 MW planned Shivlakha Kutch 5 Backbone Bhuj Kutch 1 Essar Power Panandhro Kutch 5 GMDC Pratapgarh Kutch PDD 9 13.451 Integrated Coal Mining (ICML) 0.5 MW Amorphous Si, 0.5 MW CdTe, 8 MW Crystalline Si Shivlakha Kutch PDD 5 8.87 Konark Gujarat Vikram Solar Shivlakha Kutch PDD 20 30.835 Solar Semiconductor Karmaria Kutch PDD 15.401 21.108 Sun Borne Solar World SW-230, cost 2102 million Rs, output is derated 1%/year Khirsara Kutch PDD 5 8.147 Unity Power SF-145-L 145Wp Copper Indium Selenide Khirsara Kutch 15 Welspun Urja Gujarat Narmada Canal - Chandrasan Mehsana 1 GSEC-Canal Charanka Patan 213.9 Consists of 31 projects Commissioned 19 April 2012 Patan 5 Jaihind Projects Bhadrada Patan 5.001 7.963 Lanco Solar 21,740 230 Wp Poly Si panels Chadiyana Patan 15 23.955 Lanco Solar 5 MW from 20,647 230W Poly Silicon and 2,464 102W thin film; 10 MW from multi crystalline Si 230W and 235W panelsPDD Chadiyana Dahisar Patan 20 PLG Photovoltaic Hilabeli Porbandar 10 17 GHI Energy fixed tilt mounted at 20° angleGHI PDD Kerala & Bapodar Porbandar Hiraco PDD 20 35.425 Hiraco Renewable Energy Bapodar Porbandar 15 27.265 Moser Baer 125,100 80W First Solar and 13,490 370W MBSL panels, 18 880 kW Sunny Central SMA-800 inverters Dhank Rajkot 5 8.699 APCA Power Dhank Rajkot PDD 5 8.02 Aravali Infrapower Dhank Rajkot PDD 10 17.678 CBC Solar Dhank Rajkot PDD 5 8.839 Ganeshvani Merchandise Mervadar and Dhank Rajkot 15 Ganges Entertainment Mervadar Rajkot PDD 10 17.835 GreenInfraOperational Projects Cost Rs 130 crore, First Solar thin film Bhatkota Sabarkantha 3 Abellon Cleanenergy Constructed by Waaree Energies Ltd. Khadoda Sabarkantha 10.2 Azure Power (Haryana) Nani Naroli Surat 5 7.53 GIPCL Dhama Surendranagar 5 8.537 Azure Power Fatepur Surendranagar 5 8 EMCO output declines 0.7%/year Fatepur Surendranagar 15 24.873 Mi My Solar PV Power Project by MMPL in Fatepur, Gujarat Dhama Surendranagar 5 Environmental System Sujangadh Surendranagar 25 Louroux Bio Energies Dhama Surendranagar 9.27 20.498 Millennium Synergy output declines 0.5%/year Patdi Surendranagar 1 1.815 Rajesh Power Services Patdi Surendranagar 1 Rasna Marketing Services Surendranagar 1 Som Shiva Surel Surendranagar 25 35.41 Visual Percept Solar Projects Commissioned 31 December 2011, cost 138 million INR/MW TikarSurendranagar Solar Farm Surendranagar 10.22 16.82 Waa Solar (Madhav Power) First Solar Thin Film CdTe Solar Modules, Commissioned December 2011 Total 1446.196Installed CapacitySolar Park Day 1 HighlightsInstalled Capacity 1095 (est)

Solar Power Generation Report Statewide

+Generation reportMonthPower(MWp) Production(MW·h)kWh/kWp/day(hrs/day)Notes 2010-12 5 363.746 Lanco 2010 5 363.746 2011-01 5 657.910 2011-02 5 689.590 2011-03 5 847.320 2011-04 5 776.140 2011-05 5 639.800 2011-06 10 844.350 Azure added 2011-07 10 1,053.002 2011-08 10 848.378 2011-09 10 1,078.100 2011-10 40 4,144.470 Solitaire and Precious added (Moser Baer) 2011-11 120 8,774.701 Welspun Urja, Green Infra, Azure, ESP, Visual, Millenium, and Emco added 2011-12 160 16,687.297 Adani Power added 2011 160 37,041.058 2012-01 234 23,392.344 Sun Edison, Konark, Backbone, Mithapur, GHI, Patdi, and MBH solar added 2012-02 280 35,606.103 4.31 GIPCL, Kanyabe, Louroux, and Charanka addedhrs/day=4.80 if the 40 MW not operating the full month is excluded 2012-03 521 71,181.352 4.95 Aravali infra, ICML, Waa Solar, PLG, Charanka expanded, Jaihind, ACME Solar, Harsha, PDPU, Abellon Cleanenergy, and Universal Solar added 2012-04 604.89 86,191.200 4.75 Mono Steel and Solar Semi added 2012-05 669.4 93,300.790 4.50 Moser Baer, Sunkon, and Hiraco added; Rasana, Rajesh, MBH solar, Essar, Sun Edison, Harsha, PDPU, Abellon, and Universal Solar consolidated into others or not reported 2012-06 689.81 85,207.413 4.14 SunBorne added 2012-07 690.4 63,348.654 2.96 2012-08 690.4 58,642.394 2.74 2012-09 690.4 71,719.094 3.46 2012-10 690.4 97,507.692 4.56 2012-11 695.4 89,028.179 4.27 APCA added 2012-12 702.3 91,649.723 4.21 Astonfield, Euro, S J Green Park, Chattel Construction, and Aatash Power added 2012 702.3 867,715.627 2013-01 823.9 108,706.728 4.26 Mi My, Responsive added 2013-02 823.9 108,077.418 4.68 2013-03 856.81 127,788.259 4.81 2013-04 886.81 123,634.094 4.81 Taxus, Ujjwala added 2013-05 856.81 128,752.498 4.85 2013-06 856.81 97,134.946 3.78 2013-07 856.81 70,479.155 2.65 2013-08 856.81 82,548.478 3.11 2013-09 856.81 95,634.111 3.60 2013-10 856.81 109,534.793 4.12 2013-11 856.81 104,635.154 3.94 2013-12 856.81 110,720.494 4.17 2013 856.81 1,267,646.129 2014-01 856.81 110,757.896 4.17 2014-02 856.81 108,807.058 4.10 2014-03 862.81 132,374.487 4.95 Jaydeep Cotton added 2014-04 862.81 132,404.605 4.95 2014-05 862.81 130,853.363 4.89 2014-06 862.81 112,480.673 4.21 2014-07 862.81 89,505.624 3.35 2014-08 862.81 93,690.516 3.50 2014-09 1000.05 99,140.672 3.20 BEL, EPPL added 2014-10 1000.05 114,841.173 3.70 2014-11 1000.05 106,945.300 3.45 2014-12 1000.05 115,440.984 3.72 2014 1000.05 1,347,242.350 2015-01 1000.05 119,867.775 3.87 2015-02 1000.05 122,643.366 3.96 2015-03 1000.05 142,227.550 4.59 2015-04 1000.05 142,812.131 4.61 2015-05 1000.05 151,267.431 4.88 2015-06 1000.05 119,395.042 3.85 2015-07 1000.05 91,133.021 2.94 2015-08 1000.05 97,582.518 3.15 2015-09 1000.05 123,211.648 3.97 2015-10 1000.05 141,661.937 4.57 2015-11 1000.05 119,838.276 3.87 2015-12 1000.05 130,560.415 4.21 2015 1000.05 1,502,201.110 2016-01 1024.15 139,319.531 4.39 Rallies added Total 5,161,529.551 Source: SLDC GujaratEnergy Account

2011 Generation detail

+Generation detail (MW·h) January February March April May June July August September October November December TotalLanco 657.910 689.590 847.320 776.140 639.800 514.800 551.900 471.200 568.100 929.090 1,773.710 2,135.960 10,555.520Azure Power 329.550 501.102 377.178 510.000 1,060.180 1,550.400 1,664.400 5,992.810Solitaire 1,018.600 1,879.000 2,059.200 4,956.800Precious 1,136.600 1,644.800 1,921.200 4,702.600Welspun Urja 1,054.600 2,013.300 3,067.900Green infra 819.500 1,313.400 2,132.900Azure, ESP, Visual, Millenium, Emco 52.691 4,284.809 4,337.500Adani Power 1,295.028 1,295.028 Total 657.910 689.590 847.320 776.140 639.800 844.350 1,053.002 848.378 1,078.100 4,144.470 8,774.701 16,687.297 37,041.058

2012 Generation detail