Fusion, solid-state batteries, and green hydrogen powering India's energy transition
On 1 August 2026 PM Modi laid the foundation stone for POWERGRID's ₹5,550 crore transmission system to evacuate 4.5 GW from the Kurnool-IV Renewable Energy Zone, alongside further Kurnool and Ananthapuram renewable evacuation lines.
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India has awarded 12 pilot projects under the National Green Hydrogen Mission to deploy 70 hydrogen vehicles — 27 buses and 43 trucks, split between fuel-cell and hydrogen-combustion powertrains — plus 16 refuelling stations, backed by about ₹410 crore in central assistance.
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Hindalco Industries is reported to be the only firm to have submitted a formal proposal to NPCIL for a 220 MW captive Bharat Small Reactor — an early test of India's push to open nuclear power to private industry.
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Indian module makers Rayzon Solar and Navitas Solar have each signed five-year deals with US firm Caelux to manufacture perovskite-silicon tandem panels in India — a combined 10 GW targeting up to 28% efficiency from 2028.
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India's renewable energy ministry has released a standard 'Electrolyser-as-a-Service' model contract under the National Green Hydrogen Mission, letting industrial users buy green hydrogen from developer-owned, on-site electrolysers instead of investing in the hardware themselves — a bankability fix aimed at accelerating real-world adoption.
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Bioenergy supply-chain startup Farm Watt Innovations has raised 32.5 crore rupees co-led by IAN Alpha Fund and Rainmatter to expand its biomass aggregation network — turning crop residue that is often burned into feedstock for India's compressed biogas plants.
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India's first energy-transition-focused VC, Transition VC, has launched a ₹1,500 crore Fund II to back engineering-led energy, manufacturing and industrial deep-tech startups, doubling down after a debut fund that returned 57% IRR.
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In an electronic reverse auction, SECI has awarded 1,344 MW of pumped hydro storage — out of 1,500 MW / 12,000 MWh tendered — to Greenko (720 MW), Tata Power (324 MW) and Torrent (300 MW), a milestone that pushes India's long-duration energy storage from policy ambition into bankable contracts.
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NTPC Renewable Energy has awarded India's first utility-scale flow battery — a 100 MWh vanadium redox store built by Delectrik Systems and Bondada Engineering at Gujarat's Khavda solar park, to be commissioned in 2027 and billed as fully designed and made in India.
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Ahmedabad-based KuhlTherm has raised $1.1 million in seed funding led by Arkam Ventures to scale precision liquid-cooling systems for the AI data centres and high-performance computing clusters straining under GPU heat.
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An India-based startup says its iron-air battery charges in six hours and discharges over 18 — and has now cleared independent third-party validation of that claim, a potential opening for cheap, daily-cycling long-duration storage.
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India's first hydrogen fuel-cell passenger train — the ICF-built, RDSO-designed "Namo Green Rail" — is set to be flagged off on 17 July for regular service on the Jind–Sonipat route, backed by a dedicated ₹89-crore hydrogen fuelling facility at Jind.
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Havells India has signed an MoU with Norway's Pixii AS to jointly develop battery energy storage systems for the Indian market, targeting the residential and commercial-and-industrial segments. The deal, announced on 10 July 2026, follows a phased roadmap from pilot installations toward local manufacturing.
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BHEL has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with thyssenkrupp nucera India to jointly manufacture alkaline electrolyser systems in India, aiming to localise the core hardware of green hydrogen and cut the National Green Hydrogen Mission's reliance on imported machines.
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Bengaluru startup Vimag Labs has won its fifth Indian patent for its Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor — a software-defined, rare-earth-magnet-free motor that generates its magnetic field electronically, a pointed answer to India's dependence on China-dominated magnet supply chains.
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Bengaluru deep-tech startup Albatross Energetics has raised about ₹10 crore ($1.05 million) in a pre-Series A round led by Transition VC to scale its energy-efficient industrial cooling and humidity-control technology, built around liquid desiccants and heat-and-mass exchangers for pharma, semiconductor and battery plants.
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Adani Green Energy has become the first Indian renewable company to cross 20 GW of operational capacity, built almost entirely on greenfield sites and anchored by its giant Khavda park in Gujarat.
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Gurugram's BatX Energies has raised Rs 105 crore in a Series A led by IvyCap Ventures to scale its recovery of lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite from dead batteries and scrap — an urban-mining bet on cutting India's dependence on imported battery materials.
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On 26 June 2026 India's Department of Atomic Energy opened what it calls the world's first hydrogen plant to use the Copper-Chlorine thermochemical cycle driven by nuclear heat from the Fast Breeder Test Reactor at Kalpakkam — a demonstrator for carbon-free hydrogen made with reactor heat instead of electrolysis.
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TruAlt Bioenergy has won ₹150 crore in central assistance under the PM JI-VAN Yojana to build a commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel plant in Bagalkot, Karnataka, sized at about 10 crore litres a year — an early move to give India home-grown SAF supply ahead of its 1%-by-2027 blending target.
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In a single week in late June 2026, EMMVEE and Jupiter International both fired up new high-efficiency TOPCon solar cell lines — and EMMVEE ordered equipment for 6 GW more — as India pushes to make the cells, not just the modules, behind its solar boom.
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On 17 June 2026 India cleared its first ₹22 crore for nine startups under the National Green Hydrogen Mission's ₹100 crore support scheme and launched a national certification portal — two concrete steps toward a credible domestic hydrogen supply chain.
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Bengaluru's Exponent Energy raised ₹200 crore to expand a battery-and-charger system that takes commercial EVs from 0 to 100% in about 15 minutes on standard lithium cells, with a 3,000-cycle warranty.
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Reliance plans to start a 40 GWh battery gigafactory at Jamnagar in the second half of 2026, built partly on Faradion's sodium-ion technology, a hedge against India's dependence on imported lithium.
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Tata's Agratas topped out the steel frame of its 20 GWh Sanand plant and Reliance readies a 40 GWh line, but only about 2.8% of the battery PLI scheme's 50 GWh target has actually been commissioned.
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SECI signed ten-year supply deals for 670,000 tonnes a year of green ammonia at tariffs starting at ₹49.75 a kilogram, among the world's lowest, decarbonising fertiliser and substituting natural-gas imports.
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Bengaluru's Pranos Fusion raised $6.8M to build a compact tokamak and the high-temperature superconducting magnets that go with it, moving fusion out of India's state labs and into the startup ecosystem.
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Bengaluru's Newtrace raised $6.3M to commercialise a membrane-free electrolyser design aimed at cutting the capital cost of green hydrogen, indigenous IP rather than licensed Western technology.
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