Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

As India strengthens its position as one of the world’s leading clean energy markets, this session will assess the direction of policy, investment momentum, and supply and demand dynamics shaping the sector. Panelists will address structural challenges, including grid readiness, financing gaps, domestic manufacturing scale, skill shortage, and regulatory uncertainty, and discuss how stronger alignment across government and industry can accelerate the next phase of renewable energy growth.

Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

As solar deployment accelerates across the country, domestic cell manufacturing has become central to India’s clean energy and industrial strategy. This session will unpack the progress made in reducing import dependence and expanding capacity under policy frameworks such as production-linked incentives and ALMM. Panelists will address cost competitiveness, technology depth, skill workforce requirement, raw material access, and policy stability, and examine how India can build a resilient and globally competitive solar cell manufacturing ecosystem.

Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

Hybrid renewable projects combining solar, wind, and energy storage are redefining the next phase of clean energy deployment in India. This session will assess the role of hybrid configurations in improving capacity utilization, enhancing grid reliability, and delivering firm power as demand rises. Panelists will address project design, transmission planning, financing structures, and regulatory certainty, and examine how scalable and bankable hybrid models can support a stable and cost-effective clean power supply.

Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

Battery storage projects are highly sensitive to technical and commercial assumptions, including degradation rates, round-trip efficiency, dispatch strategy, cycling frequency, and revenue stacking potential. This session will evaluate how realistic performance data, financial modeling, and revenue visibility across ancillary services, peak shifting, and capacity mechanisms shape project bankability and investor confidence. Panelists will address contract structures, risk allocation, financing strategies, and execution challenges, and examine how to structure and deliver scalable battery storage projects.

Family Room Hall, First Floor

India’s solar manufacturing sector is moving from capacity announcements to execution. As the industry scales beyond module assembly into cells, wafers, and upstream integration, competitiveness will depend on bankable factory design, technology selection, equipment integration, cost discipline, commissioning quality, and ramp-up efficiency.

This RCT Solutions-led technical session will examine what it takes to build and operate competitive solar manufacturing facilities in India, with a focus on cell and wafer manufacturing, FEED and owner’s engineering, production line planning, equipment selection, utility readiness, testing, quality systems, safety, workforce training, and achieving stable yield after commissioning.

The session will also highlight the practical execution issues that often determine project success, from realistic timelines and CAPEX/OPEX planning to process discipline, local capability building, and moving from installation to nameplate production.

Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

Building a fully integrated solar manufacturing ecosystem from polysilicon and wafers to cells and modules has become a strategic priority for India’s clean energy and industrial ambitions. This session will explore the progress made in expanding downstream capacity and examine the investment, technology, and policy measures required to strengthen upstream integration. Panelists will address capacity requirements, supply chain resilience, cost competitiveness, infrastructure readiness, and export potential, and evaluate how India can develop a vertically integrated and globally competitive solar manufacturing value chain

Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

Renewable energy is emerging as a strategic growth segment as demand accelerates from data centers, digital infrastructure, and commercial and industrial expansion. This session will take a closer look at the role of C&I rooftop solar, open access, behind-the-meter storage, and microgrids in delivering reliable, cost-effective, and low-carbon power solutions. Panelists will address investment models, corporate procurement strategies, storage integration, and new revenue streams, and examine how decentralized clean energy can strengthen energy security and drive scalable deployment.

Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

Energy storage is emerging as a critical enabler of a reliable power system as solar and wind capacity accelerate across the country. This session will dive into the policy direction, market mechanisms, and manufacturing strategy required to scale storage deployment across grid and distributed applications. Panelists will address supply chain resilience, domestic production capacity, financing models, cost competitiveness, and regulatory clarity, and examine how India can build a secure and bankable energy storage ecosystem to support sustained clean energy growth.

Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

Large-scale renewable energy deployment is entering a phase where scale must be matched by infrastructure, capital depth, and operational coordination. This session will review how grid expansion, storage integration, supply chain readiness, land acquisition, and financing structures are aligning with accelerating capacity additions. Panelists will address execution bottlenecks, demand growth in the industrial and digital sectors, and investor confidence, and examine the commercial and policy strategies required to deliver reliable, cost-competitive renewable energy at scale.

Family Room Hall, First Floor

As India’s renewable energy sector scales rapidly across solar manufacturing, energy storage, grid integration, and project development, the industry is facing a growing gap between academic education and real-world workforce requirements.

Mercom India is leading an important industry conversation by bringing together industry leaders, academic institutions, and experts to identify practical solutions for aligning curriculum, technical training, internships, and industry partnerships with the evolving needs of India’s clean energy sector.

The session will focus on building a stronger industry-ready talent pipeline to support the next phase of India’s energy transition.

Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

As India scales solar manufacturing and deployment, increasing attention is turning to both bill of materials (BoM) inputs and balance-of-system (BoS) components that are essential to building a competitive domestic supply chain. From backsheets, glass, junction boxes, frames, encapsulants, and wafers to inverters, mounting structures, cables, transformers, and switchgear, these segments represent a significant opportunity for value creation, localization, and industrial growth.

This session will assess the progress of domestic BoM and BoS manufacturing, investment trends, technology competitiveness, supply chain resilience, and policy support. Panelists will examine how strengthening these critical segments can reduce import dependence, improve project economics, and help position India as a globally competitive solar manufacturing hub.

Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

Rapid advancements in renewable energy technologies are reshaping project economics, performance benchmarks, and grid integration capabilities across the sector. This session will examine developments in high-efficiency solar modules, next-generation wind turbines, advanced energy storage systems, power electronics, and digital grid management. Panelists will address commercialization pathways, investment trends, and competitive pressures, and examine how technology innovation can enhance reliability, improve cost competitiveness, and accelerate scalable clean energy deployment.

Family Room Hall, First Floor

As India’s solar market expands rapidly, module quality and long-term reliability are becoming critical concerns for developers and buyers. This practical workshop will focus on solar module QA/QC, defect identification, pre-shipment inspections, procurement risk reduction, and failure prevention.

Industry experts and technical leaders will discuss real-world issues such as delamination, broken glass, cell-touching risks, fire hazards, and rejection criteria to help procurement and technical teams improve quality evaluation, reduce project risk, and make more informed procurement decisions beyond price considerations.

Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

As renewable capacity accelerates, transmission infrastructure has become central to ensuring clean power reaches demand centers efficiently and reliably. This session will examine how substations, transmission corridors, transformers, and grid connectivity systems must expand in alignment with generation growth to avoid curtailment and stranded-asset risks. Panelists will address planning frameworks, procurement strategies, equipment supply constraints, and capital deployment models, and examine how transmission readiness can support sustained and large-scale renewable energy expansion.

Oval Hall, Lower Ground Floor

As renewable deployment accelerates, capital markets are playing an increasingly central role in financing infrastructure, manufacturing, and energy storage expansion. This session will dive into how green IPOs, strategic equity raises, infrastructure funds, and sovereign capital are shaping investment trends and influencing valuations across the sector. Panelists will address investor expectations, risk perception, balance sheet discipline, regulatory stability, and capital structuring, and examine what it takes for renewable companies to attract and deploy long-term, competitive financing at scale. Tea and coffee will be served during the session inside the conference hall.