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<jats:p>Globally, energy consumption is increasing drastically due to the economic growth, rapid industrialization and increasing domestic comforts. Also energy is now considered to be important criteria for sustainable development of any country. Melting of ice caps, overabundance of greenhouse gases, global warming and other drastic climatic changes worldwide, has turned attention towards environmental issues. Exploiting the enormous potential of renewable energy sources could be one of the alternatives of total dependency on the conventional energy resources. In India, the population is sparsely scattered in vast geographic location, because of which the government often cannot provide electric power to the entire citizen through the centralized national grid. In that case, renewable energy is a good option to as it can be used as a stand-alone distributed generation system. In this paper, the availability and current status of renewable energy in Rajasthan is summarized. This summary of available resources helps researchers, investors and developers to find probability of improvement in technologies to harness renewable energy and to map out further expansion of renewable energy generation.</jats:p>