Articles written by Dana Redden

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From connected plants to intelligent industry: India’s next digital transformation The real opportunity lies in combining India’s engineering depth with its growing digital capabilities. The factories and energy systems of the future will not necessarily be those with the largest number of sensors, the most sophisticated dashboards or the greatest volume of data. They will be the ones that can sense earlier, understand faster and act with greater precision.
Bijal Sanghvi, Managing Director, Axis Solutions Ltd
Oct 14, 2026
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How India is pioneering a sustainable, self-reliant EV battery ecosystem India’s battery industry is still taking shape, and it will rely on others for several raw materials for some time. What has changed is that manufacturing, renewable power, new chemistries and recycling are now being planned as parts of one system. If cell plants come online on time and run on clean power, and recycling targets are enforced, India can cut its import bill and give local makers more control over how batteries are sourced, made and recovered.
Mukesh Gupta, CMO, MaxVolt Energy Industries Ltd
Oct 13, 2026
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India’s renewable energy generation crosses 100 billion units in one quarter for the first time: CREA Solar accounted for 10% of India’s total electricity generation, jumping by nearly 40% year-on-year.
Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)
Oct 12, 2026
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Technology & Products
Beyond Gigawatts: Why India’s clean energy future depends on storage intelligence The battery creates flexibility. The intelligence behind it determines how much of that flexibility the grid can harness. The next clean energy benchmark for India, therefore, might not just be a new number of gigawatts. It might be the ability to get the maximum out of every gigawatt.
Kumar M., founder of Smart Grid Analytics
Oct 09, 2026
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Can India scale data centres without raising emissions? The question is no longer whether India can scale its data centre footprint, but whether it can do so while maintaining discipline on energy consumption, emissions, and resource utilisation. The answer to this will define the credibility and resilience of the industry in the decade ahead.
Nikhil Parate, Head of Energy & Sustainability India, Colt Data Centre Services
Oct 09, 2026
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India’s energy security challenge is no longer about supply, it’s about resilience As renewable energy capacity grows, variability becomes more important. Storage, flexible generation, stronger transmission networks and responsive grid controls will increasingly determine how reliably power can be delivered while grid stability is maintained.
Yuki Furuya-san, Deputy head of Energy & Sustainability Business at Yokogawa India
Oct 08, 2026
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Solar and storage accounted for nearly 1 million EU jobs in 2025 Solar and battery storage supported 982,000 jobs in the EU in 2025, with PV accounting for 874,000 positions. Solar employment is expected to decline by 2030 as deployment slows, despite growth in operations, maintenance, manufacturing and recycling jobs.
Pilar Sánchez Molina
Oct 08, 2026
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India’s battery energy storage system requirement to rise nearly seven-fold to 236 GWh by FY2031-32: Rubix Data Sciences BESS project pipeline reaches 176.66 GWh, while Gujarat and Rajasthan account for nearly 88% of installed utility-scale capacity.
Rubix Data Sciences
Oct 07, 2026
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Global polysilicon prices hold steady as China price gains meet buyer resistance 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.
OPIS
Oct 05, 2026