Manufacturing

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.

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.

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.

NavPrakriti, a lithium-ion battery recycling and refurbishment company, has announced plans to invest over INR 100 crore to establish a greenfield critical minerals refining facility in Odisha. This facility is expected to become operational by FY 2028–29.

As green hydrogen scales from pilot projects to industrial supply chains, the organizations that pair AI-powered digital twins with green hydrogen-as-a-service (GHaaS) commercial structures will be best positioned to deliver clean hydrogen at competitive cost and speed.

Kosol Energie has completed the installation and commissioning of a 142 MWp ground-mounted solar project for Coal India Ltd in Gujarat, deploying n-type TOPCon bifacial modules based on POE–POE encapsulation technology.