India’s cumulative solar open access capacity reached 27.9 GW in September 2025, with Maharashtra contributing about 17%, the second-largest share after Karnataka, according to Mercom’s Q3 2025 Solar Open Access Market Report. Despite this strong...

Solar accounted for 40% of all job additions in the power sector worldwide in 2024, with almost three-quarters in China. Around 3.5 million workers were employed in the manufacturing of system equipment, such as inverters, solar panels, generators,...

Hubballi Electricity Supply Company (HESCOM) has invited bids to set up 108 MW grid-connected solar projects in five districts of Karnataka under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) – Component C. The last date...

The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has approved Tamil Nadu Green Energy Corporation’s (TNGECL) purchase of 1,000 MWh of power from battery energy storage systems (BESS) located at six substations of Tamil Nadu Transmission...

Solar solutions company Onix Solar Energy, a subsidiary of Onix Renewable, has received an order worth ₹1.48 billion (~$16.54 million), from Vikran Engineering to supply 193,550 of 620 Wp non-Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) TOPCon solar modules....

THDC India (THDCIL) has commissioned a total capacity of 750 MW out of its 1 GW variable-speed pumped storage project (PSP) at Tehri in Uttarakhand to full capacity. The company recently commissioned its third 250 MW unit. The fourth unit is under...

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has issued two tenders to set up 12.5 MW/25 MWh and 43 MW/86 MWh battery energy storage systems (BESS) at the 33/11 kV Shivalik Grid Station and the 66/11 kV G5 Matiala, G7 Dwarka, and Goyla Khurd Grid...

The clean energy arm of the Aditya Birla Group, Aditya Birla Renewables (ABRen), has secured an investment commitment of ₹20 billion (~$222.37 million) from Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part of BlackRock, with a greenshoe option to invest...