India's Clean Energy Soars, But Grid & Storage Bottlenecks Threaten Future Growth

• India added record 44.5 GW clean energy capacity in 2025, marking a shift from energy transition to acceleration with strong domestic manufacturing.
• Despite the boom, grid readiness, storage deployment, and system integration lag, posing significant bottlenecks for future growth.
• Current energy storage (490 MWh by June 2025) is far below national targets of 82.37 GWh by 2026-27 and 411.4 GWh by 2031-32.
• Bioenergy, especially ethanol, showed significant progress, moving from policy intent to nationwide execution and achieving surplus production.
• Experts emphasize that sustaining acceleration requires faster approvals, deeper transmission/storage integration, and system performance over speed.

Why It Matters: India's clean energy boom faces critical grid and storage challenges, demanding urgent system integration.