On 4 November, the Union Cabinet cleared a scheme to set up domestic lithium and nickel processing plants. Support is capped at ₹500 crore (US$53 million) per lithium beneficiary and ₹900 crore (US$96 million) per nickel beneficiary, according to an official statement. The scheme runs from FY2026-27 to FY2030-31 and offers a 30% capital subsidy. The logic is clear. India imports most of its refined battery inputs, and processing is where value and strategic risk sit. A similar mood ran...
India’s coal imports declined 9.0% week-on-week to 3.81 MT during 1–7 November, as a sharp fall in steam coal shipments outweighed a recovery in coking...
Exchange prices more than doubled in October from a year earlier, yet day-ahead volumes fell, a sign that supply, not demand, set the limit. Real-time...
Distributed solar now makes up more than 40% of the world’s installed solar capacity, and BRICS countries are at very different stages of adopting it....
India has crossed 500 GW of installed capacity, with more than half non-fossil. Yet coal still generates 74% of its electricity, and four states supply...
Southern India is rapidly emerging as the centre of India’s electric mobility transformation, driven by growing investments in...
Indian banks are improving climate disclosures and sustainability reporting, but most remain poorly prepared for deeper financial risks...
Behind India's impressive renewable energy capacity numbers lies a more revealing reality. Rooftop solar is already delivering measurable...
A new IISD framework for planning rural solar villages finds that village-level solarisation can cut electricity costs nearly...
The Bharat Renewable Energy Summit & Expo was held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, from 2 to 5 November 2026. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated...
India’s coal plants posted a record July even as renewables hit a record 20% share. The two facts sit together. Weak rain cut hydropower, and...
Southeast Asia’s clean energy market is set to grow from US$25 billion in 2025 to over US$80 billion by 2035. Solar manufacturing is shrinking under...
India added a record 34 GW (DC) of solar in the first half of 2026. Now two quiet constraints are showing. China has proposed export...
India’s solar-powered livelihood tools, from dryers to cold rooms, show strong returns, with 87% of surveyed users reporting higher incomes. Yet adoption is under 3%...
A global consultancy expects grid spending to reach US$970 billion a year by 2050, driven partly by AI. But the chips behind that demand may...
Cost once decided which power source won. Now time does. Gas turbines are booked into 2031, households are investing billions, and trade barriers are rising....
Solar and wind spending in emerging economies could reach US$356 billion by 2040, but a high cost of capital still slows the build-out. Fresh lender...
India’s estimates of theoretical wind potential have grown from 102 GW to over 1,200 GW as towers get taller. The capacity it actually plans to...
India’s power debate centres on how much coal, storage and grid to build. A quieter question is whether prices reach the people who can shift...
India is meeting its transition costs with household subsidies, not a carbon price. A new study says returning carbon revenue to households is not enough;...
India’s rooftop solar scheme has crossed 50 lakh homes, but its next phase is taking shape through rules, not cash. The government is weighing local...
CARE ESG Ratings estimates that India’s green hydrogen ambitions could draw $180–200bn through 2030. It lists high production costs, limited commissioned capacity, infrastructure gaps and...
MNRE flags $220bn clean energy opportunity by FY2030, hinges on private capital India has an estimated $220 billion in investable opportunities across the clean energy...
India’s battery storage needs hit 236 GWh by FY32, requiring $36.1bn A Rubix Data Sciences report estimates India’s battery storage requirement at 236.22 GWh by...
India and Saudi Arabia have completed a feasibility study for a 2,100-km undersea link estimated at around US$9bn, carrying 3 GW through high-voltage direct current....
Jakson Solar’s $525m push into 3 GW solar manufacturing Jakson Solar plans to invest up to ₹5,000 crore ($525m) in 3 GW each of solar...
Avaada commits $4.2 billion to green ammonia and methanol Avaada Group plans to invest about ₹20,000 crore ($2.1 billion) each in a green ammonia plant...
Hyundai Motor Group commits $15.5bn to India through 2032 Hyundai Motor Group has committed $15.5bn to India over 2026–2032, announced after Executive Chair Euisun Chung...
India’s $19.3bn corridor targets 135 GW renewables and 50 GWh storage The Union Cabinet has approved Green Energy Corridor Phase III, with a total outlay...
Day-ahead power prices fell sharply as rain and cooler weather eased demand, with real-time trading now larger than the day-ahead market. October still closed with...
Data centre capacity is set to at least double in most regions by 2030, yet capacity alone does not decide grid stress. What matters is...
All-India peak demand slipped to about 234 GW, roughly a tenth below its early-October high, and spot prices cooled. Yet Gujarat set an all-time record,...
September showed how fast India’s power demand can jump. Peak load rose 17% in a year, and evening shortfalls returned. Behind the swing sit three...
Global 2030 storage targets now add up to 822 GW, almost three times the level seen at COP29, but still well short of the 1,500...
India’s battery energy storage market has moved from pilot projects to large-scale deployment. New capacity of 8.2 GWh was added in the first half of...
India expects 45–50 GWh of battery storage over this fiscal and the next, up from about 1 GWh. But bids were won on 2025 cell...
India’s transmission utility has set a four-hour minimum for most new battery connections and two hours for older applicants. The rule rations scarce grid access...
India’s renewable capacity has crossed 300 GW and could reach about 530 GW by 2030, supplying 35% of electricity and saving an estimated US$240 billion...
India’s wind sector is having its best year in decades, but from 31 August, it loses the special grid protection that has cushioned it since...
India's solar capacity has grown from 3 GW in 2014 to over 162 GW today, but land is running scarce. Floating solar, panels mounted on...
India's distributed solar capacity has surged from 1.8GW to 31.5GW since 2018, driven by government subsidy schemes. But its share of total renewable installations has...
Clean hydrogen has moved from pledges to plants, with 579 projects now committed and operational capacity growing fast. Yet barely 1% of the world’s hydrogen...
India's compressed biogas sector is scaling rapidly, backed by SATAT, the National Bioenergy Programme, and billions in projected investment. Yet beyond capacity additions, plants face...
India is increasingly turning to biogas and compressed biogas (CBG) as part of its clean-energy transition, viewing organic waste not merely as a disposal challenge...
India’s hydrogen mobility ambitions are moving from policy discussions to real-world trials, with hydrogen fuel-cell buses operating in Delhi and India’s first hydrogen-powered train planned...
Brent settled at US$94.62 on Wednesday, its lowest since 31 August, after Republicans lost control of Congress and President Trump said he has no immediate...
Asian spot LNG for December delivery rose to US$32.50 per mmBtu, its fourth weekly gain and the highest since December 2022, as Europe’s storage sat...
Brent closed near US$115 a barrel on Wednesday, up from about US$110 a week ago, after Houthi claims on Ras Tanura and reports that Washington...
Asian spot LNG for December delivery fell to US$31.40 per mmBtu in the week to 6 November, ending a four-week rise, as Hormuz flows picked...
The government has asked miners and railways to triple power-plant coal stocks to 55 million tonnes by March, while Coal India”s October e-auction premium jumped...
India’s coal imports rose 8.6% week-on-week to 4.18 MT during 25–31 October, driven entirely by a strong recovery in steam coal. Steam coal arrivals climbed...
Coal India’s October production and offtake each rose by almost a fifth, and power-plant stocks edged up after a week of depletion. Even so, 95...
India’s coal imports fell 22.5% week-on-week to 3.85 MT during 18–24 October, reversing the sharp rebound seen in the previous week. Both major categories declined,...
Electric fleets rarely fail for want of range. They fail for want of visibility. Charge management software answers this by placing depot chargers, public stations...
India added chargers at speed, from about 5,000 public stations in 2022 to 29,151 by December 2025. But utilisation of 1–3% leaves operators carrying high...
India sold 5,412 electric buses in FY26, yet almost the entire fleet on the road belongs to state transport undertakings. The reason is less about...
India’s EV financing market is projected to reach ₹3.7 lakh crore (roughly US$50 billion) by 2030, but lenders are increasingly focused on a basic question:...
Artificial intelligence is usually credited with making renewable energy smarter and cleaner. A new peer-reviewed study argues the fuller picture is considerably less reassuring. AI,...
AEM electrolysers are emerging as a promising next-generation technology in India’s green hydrogen push, offering a potential balance between cost and performance. By reducing reliance...
India’s battery storage systems are evolving from passive assets into intelligent, multi-functional components of the power sector. Advances in chemistry, power electronics and digital control...
Researchers have successfully researched upon an alternative to conventional lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries for industrial usage, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) told media. With...
BPCL adds $1.8bn to Mozambique LNG, taking India’s equity-linked gas bet to about $4.6bn BPCL’s chief financial officer told analysts on 26 October that the...
World Bank targets $19bn for critical minerals as India eyes $5bn by 2031 The World Bank Group plans to quintuple its support for metals and...
South Africa’s $181bn investment drive targets infrastructure delivery South Africa has set a target of roughly US$181bn in investment over 2026–2030, spread across energy, mining,...
South Korea’s $747bn K-GX plan targets green steel, hydrogen and batteries by 2035 South Korea has launched K-GX (Korea-Green Transformation), a 1,000 trillion won (US$747bn)...
Between 2020 and 2025, Himachal Pradesh lost ₹21,097 crore (US$2.19 billion) and more than 2,000 lives to climate-linked disasters. A study of 12 village councils...
Warming will now cross 1.5°C, so the task is to limit how high it goes and for how long. Global emissions were nearly flat in...
Two studies released within weeks of each other put a hard number on what climate change is already costing Indian children: an extra month of...
India’s climate transition is becoming increasingly attractive to private capital. Solar, storage, transmission, carbon markets and carbon utilisation all offer identifiable assets or revenue streams....
