According a joint ASSOCHAM-Ernst & Young paper, Tamil Nadu has done a tremendous development in adding capacity of Renewable Energy (RE), which is projected to reach even 72 percent of its peak demand by 2022.

At present, the state has an installed capacity of over 8300 MW of non-conventional energy, which is about 40 percent of the total capacity installed including the conventional sources of thermal and hydro.  However, the problem remains about a huge gap between the installed RE capacity and its actual generation. Against the 40 per cent ratio of the installed capacity, the RE sources supply just about 14 per cent of the state's peak demand, thanks to inadequate infrastructure to evacuate the power to the grid and the natural limitations.

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