India, Jan. 31 -- If the first two days of India Energy Week 2026 tested the conference's premise in real time, the final stretch expanded it. Day 1 and Day 2 had been anchored by three signals: investment as the enabler, addition as the operating principle, and growth as the underlying driver. Day 3 and Day 4 sharpened to a key insight: India's energy transition is being planned as a coordinated build-out across fuels, infrastructure, data systems and domestic capability - not a single pathway, and not a single timeline.

The second half of the programme took that framing into execution questions: what has to be built, what has to be integrated, and what has to remain affordable as systems scale.

The focus shifted to system readiness: i...