India's Energy Transition: Storage, Grid & Clean-Tech | Sumant Sinha | Bharat RE 2026

Published on :

5 November 2026


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ETEnergyWorld


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Interviews



India's next renewable energy milestone will not just be about how much clean power it can generate. It will be about how reliably it can deliver it.

 

At the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit & Expo 2026, Sumant Sinha, Founder, Chairman & CEO, ReNew, joined Shipra Malhotra, Editor - Special Initiatives (ETCIO and ETCISO), The Economic Times Business Verticals, for a conversation on the next phase of India's energy transition.

 

Sinha identifies three priorities that will determine the pace of progress:

  1. Scaling energy storage: A combination of battery storage and pumped hydro will be essential to address the mismatch between daytime renewable generation and evening power demand.
  2. Strengthening transmission infrastructure: Expanding grid capacity is critical to ensuring that growing renewable generation can reach consumers.
  3. Building domestic clean-tech supply chains: India needs capabilities across solar modules, batteries, rare earth permanent magnets and the components that underpin these technologies.

The conversation also explores the growing electricity requirements of data centres, the potential of green molecules, corporate renewable procurement and India's opportunity to emerge as an alternative manufacturing destination in the global clean-tech supply chain.

 

One clear takeaway: India's energy transition is increasingly an infrastructure, manufacturing and energy-security challenge, not just a generation target.

 

Watch the full conversation.