CIS (EI) vs India: Electricity generation from low-carbon sources

CIS (EI)

526.44 terawatt-hours

in 2025

India

554.81 terawatt-hours

in 2025

CIS (EI) rank

2nd

India rank

4th

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources over time

CIS (EI)
India

How they compare

India currently reports 554.81 terawatt-hours against 526.44 terawatt-hours in CIS (EI), a difference of 28.37 terawatt-hours.

That makes India's figure about 1.1 times CIS (EI)'s.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was CIS (EI) ahead.

CIS (EI) ranks 2nd and India ranks 4th of 2 groups.

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About this data

Indicator: Electricity generation from low-carbon sources
Unit: terawatt-hours
Source: Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 216 places, 7,081 data points, 1920–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured in terawatt-hours. Low-carbon sources correspond to renewables and nuclear power, that produce significantly less greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuels. Renewables include solar, wind, hydropower, bioenergy, geothermal, wave, and tidal.