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Panel: Behind the Meter: The C&I and Residential Storage Opportunity India Can Capture
Date & Time
October 24, 2026 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
TypePanel
Maharashtra’s net-billing mandate has driven residential solar plus storage from near-zero to over 50,000 homes in two years. The grid stability benefits are measurable, the consumer economics work, and the installation pipeline is accelerating. Which states replicate this next — and what is the minimum policy trigger needed to get there?
The same peak tariff pressure and grid unreliability driving residential adoption applies equally to C&I consumers — often with stronger economics given higher consumption volumes and greater sensitivity to outages. Why is C&I storage adoption still lagging behind the opportunity, and what combination of financing, product and regulatory clarity unlocks it?
Behind-the-meter storage at both residential and C&I scale is already reducing peak demand and cutting grid stress in states where it is concentrated. Yet no remuneration mechanism exists for those system benefits. What regulatory change would most immediately allow distributed assets to be rewarded for the value they are already delivering?
