India: Renewables

India’s infrastructure story has long been associated with ambition, mega highways, renewable energy parks, airports, logistics corridors, smart cities, data centres and urban transformation projects. Over the last two decades, billions of dollars have flowed into the sector from banks, institutional lenders, sovereign wealth funds, infrastructure funds and global investors eager to participate in India’s growth trajectory.

India’s green hydrogen sector is no longer being discussed as a futuristic climate ambition. It is rapidly becoming one of the most commercially significant infrastructure and energy transition opportunities in the country. As governments and industries worldwide intensify decarbonisation efforts, green hydrogen is emerging as a strategic solution for sectors where electrification alone cannot achieve net-zero objectives.

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has operationalised the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) framework for solar PV cells with effect from 1 June 2026, thereby completing the two-tier sourcing structure that the ALMM regime had originally envisaged. While the framework, when introduced in 2019, contemplated approved lists for both solar PV modules and solar PV cells, implementation was initially confined to only solar modules, due to limited domestic cell manufacturing capacity at that time.

The global imperative to combat climate change has catalysed the development of robust market-based mechanisms for carbon emissions reduction, and India has progressively aligned itself with this international...

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India ("MNRE") on February 25, 2026 issued the draft guidelines for quantifying greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions from offsite water drawal and treatment, for stakeholder comments until March 13, 20262. These guidelines inter alia provide for benchmark emission factors along with a mechanism for allocation/ determination of emissions during water treatment systems in order to ensure compliance with the Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme of India3 and alignment with ISO 19870:2023.

The Supreme Court of India (“Supreme Court”) in the case of Southern Power Distribution Company of Andhra Pradesh Limited and Anr. vs. Green Infra Wind Solutions Limited and Ors1 has dismissed civil appeals filed by the distribution licensees of Andhra Pradesh (“AP Discoms”) while holding that Generation-Based Incentive (“GBI”) granted by a Central Government Policy to wind power generators cannot be taken away by a State regulator and re-distributed to distribution licensee’s consumers by factoring the incentive into generation tariff.

The Ministry of Power notified the Electricity (Amendment) Rules, 2026 vide G.S.R. 186(E) published in the Gazette of India (Extraordinary), Part II - Section 3(i) on 13 March 2026.

TNERC through its order dated 06.03.2026 in the matter of Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation Limited v. Tata Power Company Limited...

We are pleased to present the fourth edition of the Infrastructure, Projects and Energy Newsletter. This edition captures the major judicial pronouncements...