The Indian Army collaborated with Tata Power through its ‘Go-Green Initiative,’ to set up 16 electric vehicle (EV) charging points in Delhi Cantonment. All charging stations can be used for both personal and official EVs in the cantonment.

The state government’s decision to privatise the operation and maintenance of Sri Damodaram Sanjeevaiah thermal power station (SDSTPS) in Nellore district is being met with resistance from the power department staff.

The State Government is planning to set up India’s first green hydrogen cluster in Mangaluru. Seven companies ACME Solar, ABC Cleantech, ReNew Power, Avaada, JSW Green Hydrogen, PETRONAS Hydrogen and O2 Power have evinced interest to invest in Karnataka for green hydrogen manufacturing.

NTPC has inked a pact with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and its arm Mitsubishi Power India to demonstrate feasibility for hydrogen co-firing blended with natural gas at NTPC’s Auraiya gas power plant.

The power utilities of Andhra Pradesh are gearing up to roll out a smart electricity metre project. The Union government has decided to replace around 25 crore conventional metre with smart metre across the country under the Smart Metre National Programme (SMNP).

India will have more than 65 per cent of its power generation capacity from non-fossil fuels by 2030, Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister RK Singh said. About 15-20 GW of solar equipment manufacturing capacity is under construction and India will have 40 GW of such facilities under Production-Linked Incentive Scheme-II (PLI-II).

India’s power ministry is proposing a nearly $2.5 billion incentive plan to encourage domestic manufacturing of grid-scale batteries, aiming at bringing down the cost of energy storage to speed up its energy transition.

Hitachi Energy has set up a new facility to manufacture power quality products (devices that test and check the quality of power) at Doddaballapur on the outskirts of Bengaluru

Servotech Power Systems has incorporated a subsidiary, Techbec Industries, for manufacturing batteries, particularly lithium-ion batteries, and other allied activities. Servotech Power Systems will be the holding company of Techbec Industries (TIL) and would hold 63.5 per cent share capital in the newly established battery manufacturing entity.