Highlights

Rays Power Infra today announced that it has commissioned 1.1 GW of solar capacity in the financial year 2026, marking its largest single-year addition to date. The installations, spread across Karnataka, Rajasthan and Gujarat, take the company’s cumulative commissioned portfolio beyond 2.4 GWp.

The system features AI-driven energy management, 10,000-cycle battery life, and scalable expansion up to 126 kWh.

The intelligent integration of solar and storage is no longer optional. Data-driven approaches are essential to ensure compliance, efficiency, and long-term reliability. Building systems with insight not only prevents costly mistakes but also creates an energy ecosystem that is not just larger, but smarter, more resilient, and adaptable to future demands.

GE Vernova has secured an order from Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Ltd to deliver nine 150 MW pumped-storage units for the 1.35 GW Upper Sileru hydropower plant in India. This marks the company’s second pumped-storage project with MEIL in India.

Uttar Pradesh Power Corp. Ltd (UPPCL) has allocated 1,500 MWh (375 MW × 4 hours) of standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity at a tariff of INR 6.45-6.46/kWh.

AMPIN Energy Transition has commissioned 500 MWp of interstate transmission system (ISTS)-connected wind-solar hybrid capacity in the Indian state of Rajasthan, marking its first integrated hybrid project supplying power to distribution companies (DISCOMs) and corporate customers.

The upcoming Solar Manufacturing USA 2026 conference in Austin will focus on real U.S. solar manufacturing progress, shifting attention from capacity announcements to actual production, costs, yields, and technology choices across the full value chain. It will also examine how policy changes and tariffs are driving domestic expansion in ingots, wafers, cells, and modules, while highlighting competing technologies like back contact, heterojunction and TOPCon.

A King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) researcher whose lab has demonstrated up to 100% accuracy using a single hardware counter tells pv magazine that firmware-level detection of inverter attacks is technically viable – but today’s communication standards do not transmit the firmware‑integrity signal to operators.

Renewable energy is abundant but intermittent. Demand is growing but uneven. Infrastructure exists but is often misaligned with where and when power is needed. In this environment, the grid has become more than a passive network; it is an active balancing system. Its resilience will determine whether the energy transition delivers stability or introduces volatility.

For years, the battery energy storage (BESS) story has followed a familiar script: costs fall, deployment accelerates, economics improve. Even when cell costs rose and system prices briefly flattened during the 2021-22 lithium price spike, the narrative largely held. Paola Perez Peña, senior principal analyst at S&P Global Energy, examines why the latest jump in lithium prices has only had limited impacts on overall BESS costs so far.