Energy resources of Rajasthan

At a glance

1. 1Wind and solar made up 45.36 per cent of the state's installed power capacity of 31,556.43 MW up to December 2025.
2. 2The Rajasthan Integrated Clean Energy Policy, 2024 aims at 1,25,000 MW by 2029-30: 90,000 MW solar, 25,000 MW wind and hybrid, and 10,000 MW hydro, pumped storage and battery storage.
3. 3Rawatbhata is NPCIL's only operating nuclear station in Rajasthan.
4. 4Lignite: Barmer has the largest total resources and Bikaner the largest proved reserves (1 April 2024).
5. 5Rajasthan gives about 12 per cent of India's crude oil (3.42 of India's 28.70 million tonnes a year, figures published in February 2026) and ranks second in onshore natural gas.

Energy sources at a glance

• SolarLeading renewable sourceMain placesBhadla (then Jodhpur district, now Phalodi); JaisalmerNote42,531 MW commissioned up to December 2025, including rooftop and off-gridFull notes →
• WindFifth in windMain placesJaisalmer and BarmerNote5,516 MW on 30 June 2026, fifth among the states; 2,140 MW of wind-solar hybrid commissioned up to December 2025
• BiomassMustard-husk powerNote20 plants, 207.50 MW up to December 2025, burning mustard husk and Prosopis juliflora; Biomass and Waste to Energy Policy in force from 29 September 2023
• HydroDam-based powerMain placesRana Pratap Sagar and Jawahar Sagar on the Chambal; Mahi Bajaj Sagar, BanswaraNoteThe dams themselves are in the rivers notes
• Thermal (coal and lignite)Coal and lignite stationsMain placesSuratgarh, Kota, Chhabra, Kalisindh; lignite stations in Barmer and Bikaner districts
• NuclearAtomic station at RawatbhataMain placesRawatbhata, Chittorgarh district
• LigniteBrown coalMain placesBarmer, Bikaner and Nagaur fields
• Oil and natural gasCrude and gas basinsMain placesBarmer–Sanchore and Jaisalmer basins

Renewable and non-renewable sources

• Non-renewable: a limited stock that takes thousands of years to form again, far longer than a human life: coal (lignite is a brown coal), petroleum and natural gas, the fossil fuels. In Rajasthan: lignite, crude oil and gas, and the coal, lignite and gas stations.
• Renewable: renewed quickly by nature. Sunlight and wind are not used up by people; water, soil and forests (timber) are renewable too, though careless use cuts their stock. Sunlight, wind, water and biomass are India's renewable energy resources; in Rajasthan, solar, wind, biomass and hydel stations.

Installed capacity by source (MW)

The table's solar and wind rows are smaller than all the capacity commissioned in the state: the solar row counts solar with KUSUM power purchase agreements, and 5,229 MW of wind had been commissioned up to December 2025 against the wind row's 4,416.12 MW. The atomic row rose by 350 MW in 2025-26.

Thermal power stations

Lignite

Lignite reserves and resources: 6,586.24 million tonnes on 1 April 2024, of which 1,203.85 million tonnes are proved. The coalfields are named after the districts as they were before August 2023. Deposits occur in Barmer, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Jalore, Nagaur and Pali.

Working mines: RSMML runs Giral, near Barmer (open-cast, production from May 1995), whose lignite feeds the Giral station, and Matasukh–Kasnau in Nagaur district (from November 2003, low in sulphur and ash). The Kapurdi and Jalipa mines of Barmer Lignite Mining Company, a joint venture of RSMML and JSW's Barmer company, feed the Raj West plant. Palana, the old underground mine, closed in 1967.

Oil and natural gas

Cairn India produced 22.51 lakh tonnes of crude oil from the Barmer–Sanchore basin in 2025-26 up to December. About 57,000 to 59,000 barrels a day come from 15 fields, among them Mangala, Bhagyam, Aishwarya, Saraswati, Raageshwari (also written Rajeshwari) and Kameshwari.

• Natural gas: the Barmer area gives about 1.90 to 2.20 and Jaisalmer about 0.71 to 0.75 million standard cubic metres a day, 2.60 to 2.95 in all.
• New gas fields: Bhakri Tibba (Oil India, from June 2025) and Chinnewala Tibba (ONGC, from August 2025), both in Jaisalmer district.
• Heavy crude: Baghewala, Jaisalmer district, about 800 barrels a day.
• Falling crude output: 42.62 million barrels in 2020-21, 24.88 million in 2024-25 and 16.38 million in 2025-26 up to December.
• Refinery: HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Ltd at Pachpadra (then Barmer district, now Balotra); the refinery and its petrochemical complex are in the industries notes.

Nuclear power

The Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) of NPCIL is at Rawatbhata, Chittorgarh district. Its operating units:

Mahi Banswara Rajasthan Atomic Power Project, Banswara: four 700 MW pressurised heavy water reactors, two units in each of two phases, at Rs 42,000 crore. It is built by Anushakti Vidhyut Nigam Ltd (ASHVINI), an NPCIL subsidiary and joint venture of NPCIL and NTPC, the first nuclear project in India of a joint venture of two central public sector enterprises. The foundation stone was laid on 25 September 2025.

Policies, agencies and conservation

• Clean energy policy: the Rajasthan Integrated Clean Energy Policy, 2024 (unveiled December 2024, in force until 29 March 2029 or until a new policy replaces it, RREC its nodal agency) also promotes rooftop solar, storage and green hydrogen. Its hydrogen target is 2,000 kilo tonnes a year by 2030, and the first 500 kilo tonnes a year project gets a 50% waiver on transmission and wheeling charges.
• Gas: the Rajasthan City Gas Distribution Policy 2025 (released 16 July 2025) aims to spread piped and compressed natural gas; 53,047 new piped cooking-gas connections were given in 2025-26 up to December.
• Agencies: RRECL is the state nodal agency of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and the state designated agency of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency; RVUNL runs the state's thermal stations, RVPN the transmission network, and three discoms distribute power.
• Energy Conservation Day: 14 December, observed across India, Rajasthan included, every year since 1991, the day of the National Energy Conservation Awards; the Bureau of Energy Efficiency was set up under the Energy Conservation Act, 2001.

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