pv magazine Insight @The Battery Show India 2025
Building an Indian battery supply chain
Global supply chains are under the spotlight in 2025. With tariffs and trade restrictions among the year’s most discussed topics, efforts to build resilient, localized supply chains are ramping up worldwide and will be key to the renewable energy industry’s future.
India has already seen huge success in establishing domestic solar manufacturing. Though it is beginning to pursue a similar strategy of tariffs and incentives for battery manufacturing, the picture for energy storage is less clear.
Battery mandates for new solar projects are set to drive demand for stationary energy storage, and India has a rapidly growing electric-vehicle segment. But the country is expected to remain dependent on imports of batteries and related materials to feed this demand, at least in the medium term.
In this pv magazine Insight, held at The Battery Show India, we’ll hear from those working to build a battery supply chain in India, as well as market observers and representatives from the buyer and policymaker side. Focus topics will include how current battery manufacturing plans are taking shape, the role of the EV industry, the impact of restrictions on export of critical minerals and technologies, and other challenges to India’s battery manufacturing efforts, promising technology alternatives such as sodium-ion, and much more.
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Mark Hutchins is Magazine Director. He joined pv magazine in September 2016 as production editor of the monthly global title. Mark also works online reporting on upstream technology and markets, as well as newly emerging solar regions.
Based in New Delhi, Uma Gupta has over 15 years of experience in reporting on subjects ranging from semiconductor chips to energy and automation. She has been associated with pv magazine since 2018, covering latest trends and updates from the Indian solar and energy storage market.
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