India, Feb. 27 -- India's clean energy push is increasingly being shaped by three structural pressures: renewable curtailment, transmission delays and the urgent need for large-scale energy storage.

Acknowledging it, Ghanshyam Prasad, chairperson of the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), at the India Energy Transition Summit by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), said renewable capacity is expanding faster than the system's ability to absorb it, creating localised curtailment in key renewable hubs and exposing infrastructure constraints that must be addressed to sustain growth.

Transition growing pain

Curtailment has surfaced most prominently in high-renewable states such as Rajasthan and Gujarat. Earl...