Mercom India has announced the winners of the sixth edition of its annual renewable energy industry awards at the Mercom India Renewables Summit 2026 in New Delhi.

The awards were presented by Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi, honoring organizations that have made notable contributions to India’s clean energy transition.

The awards evaluated the projects on their uniqueness, execution challenges, complexity, and measurable economic and environmental impact.

The winners of the sixth annual Mercom India Awards are:

Tata Power Renewables won the Best Large-Scale Solar Project award for a 1 GW solar project, executed in full compliance with domestic content requirements. The project was also India’s largest single solar engineering, procurement, and construction order.

Ab Energia Solutions won the Commercial and Industrial Project (Rooftop) award for its 23.02 MW rooftop solar system at Jindal Stainless’s manufacturing campus in Jajpur, Odisha. The project is the largest C&I rooftop solar installation in the state.

TrueRE Oriana Power won the Best Commercial and Industrial Project (Ground-Mount) award for a 110.5 MW captive solar project developed across two locations in Rajasthan for the JK Cement Group. The project was designed to support the company’s energy-intensive manufacturing and grinding operations through long-term integration of solar power. It is also Rajasthan’s first long-term open access approval under the group captive framework.

WattSun Energy won the Best Residential Project award for an integrated residential rooftop project in India that combines solar power, battery storage, electric vehicle charging, and sustainable energy use within a single residential ecosystem.

Adani Green Energy won the Best Hybrid Project award for its Khavda hybrid renewable energy project, which marks a defining shift in large-scale clean energy deployment. Spanning 538 square kilometers, the site ranks among the largest energy infrastructure developments ever attempted worldwide.

Kosol Energie won the Best Engineered Project award for its 15 MW DC solar project developed for Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals at the Charanka Solar Park. This project highlights its first large-scale solar tracker deployment, demonstrating advanced utility-scale solar engineering, optimized land utilization, and high-efficiency power generation through innovative tracker integration.

SuryaLogix won the Best Innovation (Product) award for its SuryaLogix Master Power Plant Controller. The controller is a next-generation centralized platform designed to manage complex hybrid renewable energy projects as a single unified system. Unlike conventional controllers that operate solar, wind, and storage assets independently, the platform enables coordinated control across geographically dispersed assets through one intelligent control layer.

Rays Power Infra won the Best Energy Storage Project award for commissioning a 600 kW/3,000 kWh vanadium redox flow battery system for NTPC. The project was commissioned at a time when long-duration energy storage was still in its early stages in India. It uses a differentiated chemistry focused on long life, safety, and large-scale grid applications, demonstrating how flow battery technologies can support renewable energy integration and future grid stability.

Serentica Renewables won the Deal of the Year (Strategic) award for its acquisition of Statkraft’s 1 GW solar and wind project pipeline in Rajasthan, which increased its operational capacity to 1.5 GW.

Aseem Infrastructure Finance won the Deal of the Year (Financial) award for sanctioning $75 million in debt financing to Vedanta for a landmark power purchase agreement with a project special purpose vehicle for its aluminum plant in Odisha.

Reslink Energy won the Emerging Startup Technology of the Year award. The company offers what it describes as the world’s first solar design platform with full 3D rooftop modeling on a mobile phone, without requiring a desktop, aerial imagery, or LiDAR. Installers can mark roof edges on-site, and the system constructs surface geometry in real time, places panels, and automatically detects obstructions.

To celebrate research and development in India, Mercom India added the following two new award categories this year.

The Energy Consortium at IIT Madras won the Research-to-Innovation award. The team demonstrated a 10 kW/50 kWh vanadium redox flow battery system at the High Energy Batteries site in Trichy. The system includes an indigenously developed low-cost membrane separator and an engineering improvement to address electrolyte shifting.

IIT Gandhinagar won the Clean Energy Research Impact award for VidyutAI, a smart energy management system that combines AI-based optimization, renewable energy control, digital twins, and real-time monitoring within a single user-centric portal. The platform provides insights across multiple renewable energy and storage projects simultaneously.