As smart grid tech is rolled out around the world to modernize legacy assets and integrate renewable energy generation, it is also making the electricity network more prone to cyber attacks. IEC Standards provide protection but they also are challenged to keep up with the latest threats.

If India solves demand creation intelligently, it can become a global price-setter, not just another participant in the hydrogen economy.

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. 

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.

India’s energy transition is not about a single breakthrough but about steady steps across multiple fronts. Ethanol has shown how supportive policy and the right technologies can deliver both farmer security and fuel stability. BioCNG can turn waste into a resource, helping both cities and villages. Hydrogen, though still in its early stages, is slowly laying the foundations of a long-term clean energy system.

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.

Japan has allocated 75.3 MW of PV capacity in its latest procurement exercise. The lowest price in the auction was JPY 4.97 ($0.032) /kWh.

Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co. Ltd. (MSEDCL), the state-owned discom, has announced that the state has successfully installed an unprecedented 45,911 solar water pumps in just one month, marking one of the largest and fastest renewable-energy irrigation deployments in the world. This achievement completes its Guinness World Records attempt under the Magel Tyala Solar Pump initiative.

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.

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.

Avaada Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GRIDCO and IIT-Bhubaneswar to establish a state-of-the-art Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Odisha focused on integrated research, innovation, and technology development in green hydrogen.

Researchers at Fraunhofer ISE have developed a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell using a TOPCon bottom cell with standard textured front surfaces. Their results show that TOPCon bottom cells can perform comparably to heterojunction cells in tandem devices in terms of shunt resistivity, supporting scalable, cost-effective industrial production.

India witnessed above-average precipitation and prolonged cloud cover through July and August, limiting the potential of PV generation across many states. Several regions, including Punjab, Haryana, and the Himalayan foothills, were hit hardest by flooding and thunderstorms. The increase in atmospheric moisture and aerosol scattering led to reduced Global Horizontal Irradiation (GHI) and reduced energy output.

Modern wind turbines and solar plants generate large volumes of operational data. By leveraging analytics, inefficiencies can be identified, performance assessed in real-time, and emerging issues addressed before they escalate. A dynamic operations and maintenance (O&M) support system builds on this intelligence to provide a strong grip on performance levels while minimising downtime.

LEAPTING (Huzhou LEAPTING Technology Co., Ltd.) has secured a major contract to manufacture and deliver 2,700 units of its flagship G1 automated cleaning robot for a 750 MW solar power project in India.

Insolation Energy (INA Solar) has advanced construction work on its upcoming 4.5 GW solar cell manufacturing plant and 18,000 metric tonnes per annum aluminium frame production facility in Narmadapuram, Madhya Pradesh. Major equipment orders for the manufacturing lines have already been placed.

During a pv magazine Week Europe 2025 webinar, panelists forecast back contact (BC) solar cells’ market share will draw level with TOPCon towards the end of the decade, before tandem technology begins large-scale momentum in the early 2030s.

Waaree Solar Americas has secured 288 MWp module order from Sabanci Renewables for two utility-scale projects in Texas.

Emmvee Energy has signed a major supply agreement with a domestic buyer for the delivery of 4.5 GWp of TOPCon solar PV cells.

RenewSys has secured a long-term supply agreement with ZNShine Solarworld to supply high-quality encapsulants for 400 MW of solar panels. Deliveries will take place from November 2025 through February 2026.

SMA Solar Technology announces the commercialization in Europe of its new MVPS-9200 medium voltage station in a 12-meter containerized version for battery energy storage systems (BESS) and large-scale photovoltaic power plants.

Pace Digitek Ltd today announced that its subsidiary, Lineage Power, has secured a battery energy storage system (BESS) order worth INR 997.10 million (including taxes) from Advait Greenergy.

NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd (NVVN), a wholly owned subsidiary of NTPC Ltd, has invited bids to set up a 500 MWh (125 MW × 4 hours) standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) project, connected to the State Transmission Utility (STU), in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

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.

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.

India’s renewable energy journey has long been narrated through the lens of capacity: gigawatts added, modules produced, plants commissioned. While these indicators are important, genuine leadership will arise from our ability to embed advanced materials, high-efficiency solar cell architectures like TOPCon, N-Type and rear-contact technologies, robotics-driven precision manufacturing, and AI-enabled predictive monitoring into our value chains.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.

As renewable capacity rises, the question is no longer whether India can generate green power. The real challenge is whether the grid can absorb it smoothly and deliver it reliably when people actually need it. This is where battery energy storage systems (BESS) are increasingly seen not as a luxury but as a core part of grid planning.

India’s energy story has moved beyond ambition to acceleration. Between April and August 2025, a 123 percent YoY jump in renewable energy capacity additions is not just a headline, it’s a signal of structural maturity, industrial resilience, and policy coherence. If the country sustains this trajectory through FY26 and FY27, it could well emerge as the world’s third-largest market for renewable deployment, behind only China and the United States.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.