As India's energy landscape evolves, building an energy system that is secure, competitive, and resilient will be critical to sustaining growth, strengthening energy security, and supporting long-term competitiveness.
At the CII Climate Action Summit 2026, the session, "Powering India's Future: Building a Secure, Competitive, and Low-Carbon Energy System", explored the role of an evolving energy mix in supporting industrial growth, enhancing resilience, accelerating innovation, and enabling net-zero ambitions.
Panel 1, "The New Energy Mix: Powering Growth, Resilience and Net-Zero Futures", was moderated by Mr. Prabodha Acharya, Group Chief Sustainability Officer, JSW.
Other delegates who were part of the panel were Mr. Venkatesh R, Managing Director and Director - Energy Business, Wรคrtsilรค India Private Ltd.; Mr. Nitin Jain, Head Corporate Centre, L&T Energy GreenTech; Mr. Mayank Jain, Head Strategic Intelligence and RMM, Middle East, India and Africa, Novonesis; and Mr. Yash Kashyap, India Lead, Mission Possible Partnership and the Industrial Transition Accelerator.
The discussion highlighted the opportunities and challenges associated with integrating diverse energy sources, scaling clean energy technologies, and building a more resilient energy ecosystem for the future.
Key Takeaways:
โข A diversified energy mix will be critical to India's energy future.
Balancing energy security, affordability, and decarbonisation will require renewables, storage, flexible generation, and sustainable fuels to work together.
โข Storage and transmission infrastructure must scale faster.
Addressing intermittency, curtailment, and grid constraints will be essential as renewable energy capacity continues to expand.
โข Green hydrogen is moving from pilot projects to large-scale deployment.
The next challenge is building the supporting ecosystem, including renewable power, transmission, storage, transport, and demand.
โข Bioenergy can strengthen both energy security and circularity.
Ethanol, compressed biogas, sustainable aviation fuel, and waste-to-energy solutions can support decarbonisation while utilising agricultural and municipal waste streams.
โข Innovation and technology scale-up will determine the pace of transition.
Stronger support for R&D, startups, pilot projects, and industry collaboration will be needed to accelerate deployment of emerging clean technologies.
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