India, Oct. 16 -- India spent about Rs 1,443 crore ($151 million) on 1,359 publicly funded clean energy research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects between 2019 and 2024, but the funding remains concentrated in a few technologies and is yet to adequately build the production capabilities needed to support the country's clean energy manufacturing ambitions, according to a new study.

The projects, spread across more than 90 institutions, cover renewables, other power and storage, hydrogen and fuel cells, transport and electric mobility, energy efficiency, and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). The database is one of the first consolidated assessments of India's publicly funded clean energy RD&D ecosystem.

The repo...