India Needs Improved Renewables Transmission Capacity, Says Power Secretary

India has rolled out multiple PLI schemes for manufacturing to reduce dependency on global supply chains and to spur domestic production.

India needs to explore the need for a production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme to improve its renewable energy transmission capacity, power secretary Pankaj Agarwal said at an event on Monday.

"We need to think about how we should localise supply chain for transmission equipment," Agarwal said, adding that 1,650 gigawatts (GW) of global renewable energy capacity is waiting to be connected to the grid.

India has rolled out multiple PLI schemes for manufacturing to reduce dependency on global supply chains and to spur domestic production.