Smart Joules raises $10 million in Series B funding from Neev II Fund, Waaree Renewable Technologies, and Spectrum Impact
Smart Joules will use the proceeds to expand its energy-efficiency and cooling operations into newer sectors and larger-scale projects, including manufacturing, building automation, and district cooling, while further strengthening the company’s technology, analytics, and on-ground execution capabilities.
The skills gap, not capital, is India’s real green energy bottleneck
The renewable energy sector creates significant employment density—approximately 10 times more workers per MW in solar and 3–4 times more in wind than in conventional power plants. This employment multiplication should be our competitive advantage. However, the skills gap is creating economic inefficiencies that compound across the sector.
Vingroup commits $3 billion for its multi-sector ecosystem in Telangana
Vietnam’s Vingroup has committed an investment of $3 billion to develop a multi-sector ecosystem in the Indian state of Telangana, with a strong focus on electric mobility, renewable energy, and sustainable urban development.
What Delhi’s pollution crisis means for renewable adoption.
India’s renewable capacity target represents necessary but sufficient progress toward climate stabilization. Delhi’s pollution demonstrates that energy supply-side transformation alone cannot deliver intended outcomes. Transport emissions, industrial activity, and residential heating must undergo equal transformation.
India’s green hydrogen future needs demand to keep pace with ambition
If India solves demand creation intelligently, it can become a global price-setter, not just another participant in the hydrogen economy.
Orient Green enters solar power segment with completion of 7 MW PV project
Orient Green Power’s arm Delta Renewable Energy has developed a 7 MW AC solar power project in Tamil Nadu, expanding the company’s renewable energy footprint beyond wind power into the solar energy domain.
Integrating solar and storage for industrial users: Lessons from early projects in Gujarat
Gujarat’s leadership in renewable deployment is now extending into the field of solar plus storage, with direct implications for industrial power users. Large grid connected projects in Kutch, storage additions at hybrid sites, and new battery initiatives aimed at supplying industries with on-demand renewable energy are all early examples of how solar and storage can work together in practice.
India must fast-track green hydrogen based steelmaking amid metallurgical coal supply risks: IEEFA
Indian steelmakers have begun adopting green hydrogen, but this option should become an even greater priority for the country as metallurgical coal supply risks intensify.
Oriana Power explores compact pumped storage for C&I customers, raises BESS target to 20 GWh by 2030
Oriana Power is expanding its focus beyond battery energy storage to compact pumped-storage solutions—a new generation of systems that the company believes could redefine the future of commercial and industrial (C&I) energy management.
New generation of IPPs is emerging, says Pexapark
Renewables research firm Pexapark says Europe’s independent power producers (IPPs) are evolving into customer-centric platforms with a focus on adding battery energy storage systems (BESS) to their portfolios and more structuring and pricing capabilities to prepare for the next wave of deals.
