India's energy storage gap is crowded with incumbents. The real whitespace sits on the demand side of the grid, and it is almost entirely unbuilt.
At 11:46 am on 6 July 2026, India's power grid crossed a line it had not crossed all year.
Clean energy sources, meaning renewables together with hydro and nuclear, met 50.02% of the country's electricity demand of 221.5 GW, according to the Ministry of Power's MERIT platform.
It was the second consecutive year that clean power took more than half the load at a single point in time.
It also lasted minutes.
By dinner, coal was back in charge.
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