Energy Dive Featured Stories - In-Depth Energy Journalism & Market Intelligence

A series of government plans released over the past two years charts the most ambitious expansion of India's electricity system since Independence, combining clean energy, nuclear power, transmission, storage and distribution reforms to support a developed economy by 2047.

The country generated 33,562.83 MU wind power during April–June this year. This is 5.3 year-on-year increase, as per the Central Electricity Authority (CEA). This growth remains highly concentrated to seven states, notching around 99.7 percent of India’s generation.

The country’s solar generation story is becoming increasingly concentrated in a handful of states. According to the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), India generated 62,791.14 MU of solar power, an increase of 45.9 percent from 43,044.62 MU during the same period last year.

Maharashtra has overtaken older solar leaders to become India's third-largest solar market, with growth now driven less by sunshine and land than by its factories, data centres and corporate power buyers.

As pipelines, Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), city gas networks and compressed biogas infrastructure expand, India’s push towards a gas-based economy is steadily reshaping fuel accessibility, mobility and energy consumption across sectors.

As downstream companies rethink energy economics and operational resilience, solar-plus-storage is emerging as a strategic pillar of the refinery transition.

India’s newly notified standards for green ammonia and green methanol signal a shift from policy ambition to market creation, as the country attempts to build a certifiable green fuels ecosystem aligned with future global trade, industrial decarbonisation and maritime energy transition.

The country’s energy transition is unfolding as a layered shift where coal, biomass, gasification and hydrogen coexist, driven by policy ambition but constrained by execution realities and system needs.

As the push for hydrogen advances in the country, its safety architecture remains in transition, as the element moves from industrial containment into a public-facing system.

The country’s solar push is moving upstream, as the extension of the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) framework to ingots and wafers seeks to localise the most import-dependent stage of the value chain and strengthen domestic manufacturing.

Rising demand, limited intra state generation and land constraints are shaping Kerala’s energy transition, as the state expands distributed renewables, strengthens grid management and explores hydrogen to extend the system beyond electricity.

The National Green Hydrogen Mission is building a full ecosystem, from ports and industry pilots to global partnerships, to make green hydrogen a driver of decarbonisation, energy security and industrial growth.