Apraava Energy secures $92 million from BII, Standard Chartered to install smart meters in India
Standard Chartered and British International Investment’s (BII) financing will enable Apraava to install around two million smart meters in homes and businesses. The smart meters will help make India’s grid more efficient, reliable, and sustainable by enabling better integration of renewable energy sources and reducing aggregate technical and commercial losses.
Waaree ranked India’s top solar module supplier by shipment volume in Q3 2025
About 11 GW of solar modules were shipped to the Indian market in Q3 2025 by 28 major players—both domestic and international—with Waaree leading the supplies at approximately 1.4 GW, according to the latest JMK Research report.
Arun Mittal to lead Vikram Solar’s energy storage arm
Vikram Solar has appointed Arun Mittal—formerly managing director and CEO (India) at Lohum Cleantech—as chief executive officer of its energy-storage solutions arm, VSL Powerhive.
Built to last or built to waste? How battery design shapes the future of recycling
Recyclability has to be considered a core engineering constraint by the battery industry. Adhesives and composites use could be reduced along with designing packs with cell visibility and enabling cell level separation should be a thing of the future. Standardization, which has been avoided for competitiveness for now, must be implemented since that will actually reduce costs across the value chain in the long term.
Sunman to build 500 MW solar panel manufacturing plant in Australia
Chinese manufacturer Sunman is to build a 500 MW per annum solar module production facility in the New South Wales Hunter Valley after securing funding support from both the state and federal governments.
Malaysia’s 4 GW/5.12 GWh solar-plus-storage complex gets World Bank funding
The Southern Johor Renewable Energy Corridor (SJREC) forms part of a $6 billion project developing a 2,000 kilometer-squared hybrid solar and battery energy storage system zone set to connect South East Asia.
Bondada Engineering commissions 48.47 MWp solar projects across India
Bondada Engineering Ltd has announced the successful commissioning of 48.47 MWp of solar power projects for Paradigm IT, MAHAGENCO, and NLC India Ltd.
India installed 6.1 GW open-access solar in 9M 2025, says Mercom
India added 6.1 GW of open-access (off-site commercial and industrial) solar capacity in the first nine months (9M) of calendar year (CY) 2025, up around 13% from the 5.4 GW installed during 9M 2024—according to a new report by Mercom.
JinkoSolar achieves 34.76% efficiency for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell
JinkoSolar says it has increased the efficiency rating for its perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells from 34.22% to 34.76%, confirmed by China’s National PV Metric & Testing Center (NPVM).
HG Infra secures 300 MW/600 MWh battery storage purchase agreement with GUVNL
HG Infra Engineering’s arm H.G. Choraniya Bess has entered into a battery energy storage purchase agreement with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd (GUVNL) for a 300 MW/600 MWh BESS on long term basis.
