Highlights

The communities that engage earliest with the clean energy transition benefit most deeply from it. But community engagement does not happen automatically. It requires deliberate investment in workforce development, accessible training, and policies that channel economic benefit back to the localities where energy is generated.

Solidus Techno Power has commissioned a 40 MW AC (60 MWp) solar project in Punjab under the state’s open access policy for captive consumption by commercial and industrial (C&I) customers.

Loom Solar has been allotted 33,400 sq. m (around 8.25 acres) plot at the Industrial Model Land Corp. (IMLC) in Meerut. The Meerut facility will focus on solar module production, complementing the ongoing capacity buildout at Kosi.  Both sites will operate as independent units.

L&T Energy GreenTech Ltd (LTEGL), an arm of Larsen & Toubro, has signed an agreement with Japan’s trading company ITOCHU Corp to supply 300,000 tonnes of green ammonia per year from its proposed production facility in Kandla, Gujarat, on a long-term take-or-pay basis.

The new inverter is designed around standardised 5 MW and 5.5 MW PV sub-arrays with the aim to reduce balance-of-system costs. It features a maximum efficiency of 99.0% and a high-voltage architecture of up to 1,600 Vdc and 1,000 Vac.

ACME Solar Holdings Ltd has operationalized more than 2 GWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity in Rajasthan. The company’s total operational BESS capacity stands at 591.18 MW/2031.24 MWh across its various subsidiaries in Rajasthan.

Burden shifting refers to reducing environmental impact of one category causing increase in another; or reducing harm in one geography while concentrating it in another. On both dimensions, the evidence of burden shifting of the lithium-ion supply chain is evident and should not be ignored.

Amara Raja Energy & Mobility has surpassed 1 GWh of cumulative lithium-based energy storage deployment in India’s telecom sector, marking a significant milestone for distributed lithium storage adoption in the country. The company said its battery systems have been installed across more than 50,000 telecom sites nationwide.

The battery manufacturing heavyweight presented its latest sodium-ion products at ESIE 2026 earlier this month, expanding its push into grid-scale storage, AI data centers, and long-life applications.

Latest report from the International Energy Agency says last year’s 600 TWh increase in solar PV was the largest-ever electricity generation increase by any source in one year, outside of periods of post-crisis recovery.