As India marches towards energy transition, new market opportunities are emerging. The industry heavyweights will set the stage for strategic discussions on the opportunities and scope for scaling renewables, the investments, technology, and other resources needed to achieve the massive targets.

Mohit Bhargava

Shivanand Nimbargi

Raj Prabhu

India's Energy Transition - Markets and Opportunities

The government of India has announced initiatives to boost renewable energy manufacturing through unique incentives, infrastructure facilities, and policies. This session will dwelve into demand and supply scenarios, opportunities, challenges, the way forward for backward integration and adoption of the latest technologies.

Lalit Bohra

Manjunath N Reddy

Puneet Gupta

Prashant Mathur

Domestic Manufacturing – Strengthening Local Supply Chains

Large-scale projects are quickly evolving from pure solar to solar with wind and energy storage to provide round-the-clock power to better suit the energy demand of DISCOMs. The session will discuss the future large-scale project development trends.

Dilip Nigam

Deepak Ushadevi

Prashant Choubey

Venkatesh R

Changing Landscape of Renewable Projects

The Renewables sector has seen unprecedented technological innovations in the past few years globally. The session will deep-dive into disruptive technologies making their way into Indian markets.  

Dinesh Dayanand Jagdale

Sujoy Ghosh

Sishir Garemella

Sai Charan

Rahul Morde

Technology Trends Driving the Renewables Market

The ‘National Hydrogen Energy Mission’ charts the path to creating a value chain in the country to achieve the goal of producing 5 million tons of green hydrogen by 2030. The panel will discuss challenges that the market has to overcome for India to become a major hub.  

Shaji John

Dipesh Pherwani

Chintan Shah

Kapil Maheshwari

Green Hydrogen – The Critical Piece in the Decarbonization Puzzle

Indian startups will pitch their innovative technologies and inventions in front of the Summit audience. The panel of judges will select the companies with the best technology.  

Technology Spotlight - Start-up Pitch Session

Energy Storage Solutions will play a major role as India continues to add intermittent renewable energy capacity to its grid. The market for storage, especially long-duration energy storage, is enormous if the most efficient and commercial technologies meet the price expectations. The experts in the session will navigate through the policy push, commercially deployed technologies, innovations and investments needed to make renewables available round the clock.  

Rupam Raja

A K Sinha

Brahmendra Thakur 

Cyriac Loyola

Role of Energy Storage in Making Renewables Mainstream

For India to meet its net zero goals, adoption of green energy among commercial and industrial units is critical. Corporates are looking to green their supply chains adding to the existing demand. The panel will discuss ways to accelerate clean energy adoption and the business models for making it financially attractive.  

Raghunath T

Akhil Agarwal

Ravi Seth 

Ashish Agarwal 

Corporates and Industries Leading Decarbonization and Renewables Adoption

India's EV ambition could create a multi-billion-dollar opportunity in the country, which will also be a major demand-side driver for clean energy generation assets. The ball has started rolling with major vehicle manufacturers offering all-electric vehicles in their line-up, the PLI program for automobile and auto Components, and the FAME program. The session will deliberate on how to accelerate the development of EV infrastructure in the country.  

Sudhendu J Sinha

Abhishek Dabas 

Electric Vehicles – The Next Big Source of Renewable Power Demand?

The session will explore the financing avenues for funding projects, new manufacturing facilities, expansion, products, and startups as the Indian renewable sector expands to meet the net zero goals. Find out who is funding, how to access these funds, and what the requirements are.  

P K Sinha

Hitesh Paliwal

Akhil Dokania 

Sandeep Upadhyay

Financing Renewables – Where is the money coming from?

OUR FLAGSHIP EVENT, MERCOM INDIA RENEWABLES SUMMIT, APRIL 2023

 (formerly Mercom India Solar Summit) brought together developers, manufacturers, investors, innovators, and other key decision makers on one stage to discuss plans and progress across the renewable energy sector over the last year. It is India’s most prestigious renewable energy event.

The industry’s elite, including representatives from the government, implementation agencies, and decision-makers from renewable companies, will discuss:

Renewable goals assessment, progress, and next steps for India’s clean energy sector

Policy drivers and solutions required to address the current market challenges

Long-term risk mitigation strategy in the renewable energy industry

Scaling domestic solar manufacturing and addressing supply chain challenges

The technologies that will witness an increased demand in the coming year: Solar plus wind? Energy storage? Green hydrogen?

What it will take for India to become the premier investment destination for solar and clean energy financing

Strategies to prioritize R&D in the cleantech space

Up close look at domestic renewable technologies and start-ups

 shared its latest research findings and insights and provided an in-depth look at India’s ever-expanding clean energy market.

Delegates will deepen their understanding of what is needed from policy, key stakeholders, research, and others to transform India into a net-zero emissions energy system by 2050, including potential environmental and economic implications.

Don’t miss this opportunity to stay up to date with the latest global trends and to better understand the future of the Indian clean energy sector at the Mercom India Renewables Summit 2023.

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(formerly Mercom India Solar Summit) brought together developers, manufacturers, investors, innovators, and other key decision makers on one stage to discuss plans and progress across the renewable energy sector over the last year. It is India’s most prestigious renewable energy event.

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Sudhendu J. Sinha

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Akhil Dokania

Abhishek Dabas

Mercom India Kicks Off its First Startup Pitch Competition for Cleantech Companies

Mercom India Renewables Summit, recognized as the industry’s most prestigious and influential annual event, is where industry leaders come together to shape the future of clean energy in India. This year it will be hosting its first startup pitch competition, bringing together the most innovative startups in India’s clean energy industry.

If you are an entrepreneur with a great cleantech idea or have developed an early-stage technology that you believe will further India’s energy transition.

In addition to gaining visibility in front of key players of India’s renewable energy industry, companies selected for the startup competition will also gain visibility in front of potential investors, customers, and partners, grow their brand profile, gain access to all of the sessions at the Mercom India Renewables Summit 2023.

The startup must own a product or innovation that contributes to clean energy

Company has never previously sponsored Mercom India Summit

Company should have raised less than $10 million in capital

Product/solution should be in the pre-commercialization phase

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The startup pitch competition will take place during the Mercom India Renewables Summit in New Delhi on April 27, 2023 at 10:30am. Companies will be notified by April 10, 2023.