India, May 19 -- India's clean energy rollout is colliding with an underprepared grid.

Some 300 GWh of renewable power curtailed in Q1 2026 due to transmission constraints.

India has met only 80 per cent of transmission targets in recent years.

This is threatening progress toward 500 GW non-fossil capacity goal for 2030.

India's rapid renewable energy expansion is beginning to outpace the transmission infrastructure needed to carry electricity to consumers, resulting in 300 gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable energy curtailment in the first quarter of 2026, according to a new analysis.

The report, Transmission gaps are beginning to constrain India's rapid renewables integration, by Ember, found that transmission constraints accounted f...