India is in the middle of one of the boldest energy pivots on the planet.
And this week, that story gets its own awards night. 🏆
On July 1–2 at the Hyatt Regency, New Delhi, the Mercom India Renewables Summit 2026 will roll out the red carpet for the people quietly rewiring the country's grid.
Handing out the trophies?
👉 Shri Pralhad Joshi, Union Cabinet Minister for New and Renewable Energy.
Alongside Raj Prabhu, CEO of Mercom Capital Group.
India's clean energy numbers are not subtle anymore.
This isn't a pilot project anymore.
This is infrastructure at national scale.
For years, clean-energy awards were a developer-and-financier club.
Big projects. Big deals. Big logos.
This time, Mercom flipped the script.
Two brand-new categories just landed:
Built specifically to pull IITs, labs, and university researchers into the spotlight.
Because the next gigawatt won't just come from a tender win.
It'll come from a lab bench.
India has imported a lot of its clean energy story so far.
Panels. Cells. Battery chemistry. Even the playbooks.
The message from this year's awards is loud:
Build it here. Invent it here. Own it here.
Startups, entrepreneurs, researchers — all invited to throw their hat in.
Across projects, storage, manufacturing, transactions, and leadership.
The whole value chain, under one roof.
"Where Policy Meets Ambition."
Policymakers in one room.
Regulators in another.
The companies actually building the future in the third.
And for two days in Delhi, those three rooms collapse into one.
Clean energy in India used to be a slide in a deck.
Now it's a market the world watches every quarter.
The Mercom Awards 2026 aren't really about trophies.
They're a snapshot of who's actually moving the needle — from boardrooms to IIT labs.
And if the last 18 months are any hint…
the winners list this year will read like the founding cast of India's next industrial era.
That's all for now!
