India Deploys Energy Stack To Scale DRE

JVN Subramanyam, Joint Secretary at MNRE, said at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on Feb. 16 that the India Energy Stack (IES) combined with AI will accelerate distributed renewable energy (DRE). He reported India has about 140 GW solar capacity, roughly 35 GW DRE, with nearly 18 GW added in the past 15 months and cited $9 billion rooftop and $4 billion agriculture investments.