Saur Energy International Magazine November 2025

From the Group Editor:

Our November issue breaks from the template we had set ourselves. It has not single cover feature. The reason is actually quite simple. During the month, we covered a whole host of leading industry players and their outlook for the future, besides their reading of the market. I really enjoyed reading many of them, written by Deputy Editor Manish Kumar, and believe you will too.

What stuck us was the amazing consistency in terms of expansion plans, even though the extent and quantum of diversification varied among players. It is increasingly obvious that the industry sees the current Indian market as a generational opportunity for the sector, with players confident of profiting from every part of the solar supply chain they enter, besides the lone wind energy player covered of course, Suzlon. With so much coverage, we decided to carry as much of it as possible, leaving little space for a separate cover feature. But the rich coverage of firms will more than compensate we believe, before things go back to normal next month.

Other than these 8 odd features, we saw worries continue to climb over the direction of bids coming in for large BESS projects, with many experts openly skeptical or apprehensive of the consequences of the attractive, but almost too good to be true bids.

Beyond all that was the rise in approvals for large thermal projects, which is frankly perplexing, something the Rajasthan regulator seems to have agreed with, as it out on hold a large planned project, citing the incoming green energy deals as well as BESS projects that would be enough to cover the projected gap for the state. More states need to take a long hard look at their thermal plans we believe.