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India’s energy storage market is expanding rapidly alongside renewable capacity additions, but supply chain dependence on imported battery components continues to shape policy risk. A proposed Approved List of Battery Manufacturers framework signals a shift toward tighter control over vendor eligibility in government-backed projects, aligning industrial policy with energy security objectives.

The global green hydrogen industry is confronting a resource allocation problem that grows more acute as deployment ambitions scale upward.…

Global renewable power capacity reached 5,149 gigawatts (GW) by end-2025, following a record 692 GW addition that marked a 15.5% annual increase, with renewables capturing 85.6% of all new capacity expansions.

Tensions around the Strait of Hormuz continue to expose a structural weakness in global logistics: a freight system still overwhelmingly dependent on diesel.

India has commissioned approximately 8,000 tonnes per annum of green hydrogen production capacity as of February 2026, marking an early-stage milestone under the National Green Hydrogen Mission.

India’s green hydrogen market has reached a new pricing threshold, with a contract awarded at ₹279 per kilogram for supply to Numaligarh Refinery Limited, a level that begins to narrow the persistent cost gap between low-carbon hydrogen and fossil-based alternatives.

thyssenkrupp nucera has secured a front-end engineering design contract for a 260 MW green hydrogen project in India led by Juno Joule Green Energy Private Limited, where it will integrate alkaline water electrolysis into the plant’s infrastructure.

Tata Motors Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding with V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority to deploy 40 hydrogen internal combustion engine powered heavy duty prime movers at the port of Tuticorin over the next two years.

In the heart of Madhya Pradesh’s steel belt, furnaces burn day and night, producing the metal that underpins India’s highways, railways, and high-rises. For workers, the economic payoff is clear, but so is the environmental cost. India’s steel sector emits more than 2.5 tonnes of CO₂ per tonne of steel produced, significantly above the global average, and heavy industries remain the country’s largest industrial greenhouse gas emitters.

Maintaining gas supply reliability above 99.99% across 3,700 kilometers of underground pipework provides Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited…