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Indian solar’s digital leap

The next phase of India’s clean energy buildout will be defined not only by installed capacity but by how well renewables are integrated to provide flexibility. Digital coordination, market access, and transactional integrity will matter as much as gigawatts deployed. Digitalizing energy is fundamental for promoting solar adoption, ensuring that surplus solar generation is utilized, and enabling distributed assets to play an active role in grid operations, say Shantanu Roy and Saptak Ghosh of India’s Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP).

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pv magazine

02 Mar 2026

A small floating solar power plant has been installed on the man-made Dhanas Lake in Chandigarh, India. | Image: Harvinder Chandigarh/Wikimedia Commons

India’s solar generation capacity has expanded remarkably, but the systems governing energy exchange have not kept pace. Rooftop solar accounts for roughly 17% of India’s installed solar capacity of 135 GW, but most of this generation remains locked within net-metering or gross-metering frameworks. Similarly, plants in India’s agricultural solar PM-KUSUM program are locked into power …

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