Tracking India’s Energy Transition
A firm, dispatchable, round-the-clock renewable tender has cleared at ₹5.25/kWh — fresh evidence that storage-backed clean power can supply reliable baseload-style electricity at competitive rates.
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Non-fossil installed capacity has reached 300.5 GW — more than 60% of the 500 GW target for 2030 — with solar alone at 164.6 GW and wind at 58.1 GW.
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A draft amendment would more than double the ISTS charge waiver for batteries integrated with renewable projects — from 12 years to 25 — sharpening the economics of storage-backed clean power.
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India’s rooftop segment added around 6.4 GW in the first half of 2026, up 104% year on year, making it the fastest-growing slice of the solar market.
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The renewable energy ministry’s allocation grew nearly a third, with solar schemes, grid storage, green energy corridors and the hydrogen mission taking the lion’s share.
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A power-importing state with an evening-peak problem is turning to batteries — Kerala is accelerating 750 MW of BESS projects to firm up its renewable supply.
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India’s module capacity has grown from 3 GW a decade ago to about 172 GW today. The harder, more capital-intensive layers of the supply chain are only now catching up.
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A snapshot of where the 288 GW renewable fleet stands — what’s in it, how fast each piece is growing, and how far 500 GW by 2030 remains.
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Utility-scale solar led the way with around 19 GW of new capacity between January and June, up roughly a third year on year, as India’s cumulative renewable capacity reached about 288 GW.
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The 12th edition of IESW brought delegates from 15 countries to New Delhi from July 8–10, with the mood shifting from “whether storage” to “how much, how fast”.
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From June 2026, government-backed solar projects must source not just modules but also cells from approved domestic manufacturers. Here’s what the change does — and where it bites.
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Operational battery energy storage climbed from 0.78 GWh in December 2025 to about 8.7 GWh by June 2026, with 10 GW under construction and roughly 20 GW in active tendering.
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Two western states accounted for more than half of India’s solar additions in the first half of 2026. Tamil Nadu was a distant third.
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Renewable equipment, battery storage, green hydrogen and nuclear equipment are named priority sectors in Gujarat’s latest industrial policy — a bid to own the supply chain, not just the generation.
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MNRE and the Ministry of Steel are seeking pilot projects that use green hydrogen in steelmaking — a small step aimed at one of India’s hardest-to-abate sectors.
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Nayurja Bharat Pvt. Ltd. is investing ₹1,000 crore in a solar component manufacturing complex at Mohasa-Babai in Madhya Pradesh, starting with encapsulant film capacity of 3 GW, scalable to 10 GW.
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India added about 2.9 GW of wind between January and June, down 16% year on year — a soft patch in an otherwise record-breaking half for renewables.
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Recent SECI auctions have cleared solar-with-storage bids at levels analysts describe as competitive with new coal plants — a threshold with big implications for what India builds next.
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The Solar Energy Corporation of India has invited bids for 700 MW of inter-state transmission connected solar, to be built on a build-own-operate basis with 25-year PPAs.
Read the full story → A firm, dispatchable, round-the-clock renewable tender has cleared at ₹5.25/kWh — fresh evidence that storage-backed clean power can supply reliable baseload-style electricity at competitive rates.
Non-fossil installed capacity has reached 300.5 GW — more than 60% of the 500 GW target for 2030 — with solar alone at 164.6 GW and wind at 58.1 GW.
A draft amendment would more than double the ISTS charge waiver for batteries integrated with renewable projects — from 12 years to 25 — sharpening the economics of storage-backed clean power.
India’s rooftop segment added around 6.4 GW in the first half of 2026, up 104% year on year, making it the fastest-growing slice of the solar market.
The renewable energy ministry’s allocation grew nearly a third, with solar schemes, grid storage, green energy corridors and the hydrogen mission taking the lion’s share.
A power-importing state with an evening-peak problem is turning to batteries — Kerala is accelerating 750 MW of BESS projects to firm up its renewable supply.
India’s module capacity has grown from 3 GW a decade ago to about 172 GW today. The harder, more capital-intensive layers of the supply chain are only now catching up.
A snapshot of where the 288 GW renewable fleet stands — what’s in it, how fast each piece is growing, and how far 500 GW by 2030 remains.
Utility-scale solar led the way with around 19 GW of new capacity between January and June, up roughly a third year on year, as India’s cumulative renewable capacity reached about 288 GW.
The 12th edition of IESW brought delegates from 15 countries to New Delhi from July 8–10, with the mood shifting from “whether storage” to “how much, how fast”.
From June 2026, government-backed solar projects must source not just modules but also cells from approved domestic manufacturers. Here’s what the change does — and where it bites.
Operational battery energy storage climbed from 0.78 GWh in December 2025 to about 8.7 GWh by June 2026, with 10 GW under construction and roughly 20 GW in active tendering.
Two western states accounted for more than half of India’s solar additions in the first half of 2026. Tamil Nadu was a distant third.
Renewable equipment, battery storage, green hydrogen and nuclear equipment are named priority sectors in Gujarat’s latest industrial policy — a bid to own the supply chain, not just the generation.
MNRE and the Ministry of Steel are seeking pilot projects that use green hydrogen in steelmaking — a small step aimed at one of India’s hardest-to-abate sectors.
Nayurja Bharat Pvt. Ltd. is investing ₹1,000 crore in a solar component manufacturing complex at Mohasa-Babai in Madhya Pradesh, starting with encapsulant film capacity of 3 GW, scalable to 10 GW.
India added about 2.9 GW of wind between January and June, down 16% year on year — a soft patch in an otherwise record-breaking half for renewables.
Recent SECI auctions have cleared solar-with-storage bids at levels analysts describe as competitive with new coal plants — a threshold with big implications for what India builds next.
The Solar Energy Corporation of India has invited bids for 700 MW of inter-state transmission connected solar, to be built on a build-own-operate basis with 25-year PPAs.