Commercial & Industrial PV

The solar plant, completed in a record time of nine months, is supplying clean energy to Texmaco Rail & Engineering Ltd.

India added 2.8 GW of rooftop solar capacity in the first half (January–June) of calendar year 2025, marking a 155% year-over-year increase compared to the 1.1 GW installed during the same period in 2024, according to Mercom India’s newly released Q2 2025 India Rooftop Solar Market Report.

SolarSquare has installed more than 250 MW of rooftop solar capacity, including about 100 MW in the residential sector and 150 MW commercial and industrial.

A study conducted by the German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in collaboration with India-based think tank the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), found that India has the potential for more than 300 GW of building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems on its existing buildings alone. Moreover, according to a World Bank report, 70% of the buildings India will need to become a developed nation by 2047 are yet to be constructed, underscoring the vast future potential for BIPV systems in the country.

Scientists in India have designed a system that uses PV panels, a proton-exchange membrane fuel cell, battery storage, and a supercapacitor. It also relies on an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system-based MPPT that reportedly achieves an efficiency of 98.7%.

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is set to begin production at its upcoming battery gigafactory in 2026, with an initial annual capacity of 40 GWh. The facility will later be modularly scaled up to 100 GWh per annum, announced Anant Ambani, executive director of RIL, during the company’s annual general meeting recently.

Everest Industries, a building solutions company in India, has invested INR 1.76 crore in Amplus Ampere (Amplus), a special-purpose vehicle (SPV) created by Amplus Energy Solutions to set up a solar power plant for group captive consumption.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Sandia National Labs have created a new nomenclature for PV connectors to reduce confusion amongst installers and developers, while improving deployment practices. They catalogued a sampling of twenty-five commercially available 4 mm connectors.

India added 18 GW of new solar power capacity in the first half of 2025, with over 11 GW installed in the second quarter alone.

India is already investing in energy storage solutions such as batteries and pumped storage to enable greater integration of renewable energy into the grid. However, this alone may not be sufficient. It’s time to also look at demand management to enable dovetail between renewable energy generation and demand.