But coal is still China's dominant energy source, accounting for 73 percent of electricity capacity.
Last year it represented 29% of new electricity capacity, behind only natural gas at 46%.
In 2010 the world's installed renewable electricity capacity outstripped its nuclear capacity for the first time.
Mr. Yadav's governments added no fresh electricity capacity when it ruled the state in the past.
China's electricity capacity today is nearly 20 times as large as it was in 1980.
India added the equivalent of about 40% of Australia's installed electricity capacity in renewable power generation from 2010 to 2014.
Despite this, renewables still provide 44% of the EU's electricity capacity, and 15% of its final energy consumption.
According to figures from BNEF, this is larger than the entire electricity capacity of the UK or South Korea.
This golden rule was spectacularly flouted in the UK electricity capacity auction that was concluded last week.
This "had the anticompetitive effect of eliminating KeySpan's incentive to sell its electricity capacity at lower prices," the department said.
They found 45% of electricity capacity would be "behind the meter", rather than from the traditional grid.
