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Press features and media commentary on Ratul Puri, Chairman of Hindustan Power, and the company’s role in India’s shift toward cleaner, more resilient energy infrastructure.
NewsX reports on India crossing 300 GW of installed non-fossil fuel capacity and Hindustan Power’s 435 MWp/300 MW solar project in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, which reached financial closure with ₹1,135 crore in debt sanctioned by IREDA.
Read on NewsXIn Lokmat Times’ business section, Ratul Puri discusses how rising electricity demand and industrial growth are reshaping India’s energy priorities, and why reliable, efficient generation capacity and execution sit at the centre of the transition.
Read on Lokmat TimesIn an authored piece for HT Insight, Ratul Puri argues that a nation of 1.4 billion needs a nuanced path between coal dependence and renewable ambition — positioning coal gasification, backed by more than ₹85,000 crore of investment and a 100 million tonne target by 2030, as a realistic bridge for industries solar alone cannot serve.
Read on Hindustan TimesWriting in ET EnergyWorld, Ratul Puri traces the sector’s move beyond record-breaking low tariffs toward value-based power systems, where flexibility, storage and stronger grid infrastructure decide how much of India’s renewable capacity actually reaches demand centres.
Read on ET EnergyWorldWith peak electricity demand touching an all-time high of 256.1 GW in April 2026, Ratul Puri makes the case that India has entered an “era of electricity” in which generation, storage, transmission and grid infrastructure must be integrated rather than scaled in isolation.
Read on The WireZee News covers Ratul Puri on artificial intelligence’s double role in energy: data centre consumption is projected to more than double to around 945 TWh by 2030, while smarter grids could unlock roughly 175 GW of transmission capacity without new lines and trim global emissions by an estimated 5–10%.
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Announcements and commentary that ran across multiple national, business and energy-trade publications, grouped by story.
IREDA sanctioned ₹1,135 crore of debt for the 435 MWp/300 MW solar plant under construction in Lalitpur district — a project won through competitive bidding in 2025 and backed by a long-term power purchase agreement with UPPCL. The announcement was carried across national business, trade and renewable energy press.
Ratul Puri argues that India’s power sector is shifting from chasing the lowest renewable tariff to the lowest systemic cost — one that prices in dependable, dispatchable supply through batteries and pumped hydro, solar–wind–storage hybrids, stronger transmission and distribution networks, and better-developed ancillary service markets.
With more than 54 GW of renewable capacity added between April 2025 and March 2026 — and roughly 300 GWh of clean power curtailed in the first quarter of 2026 alone — Ratul Puri says the focus has to move from capacity creation to effective power delivery through transmission, grid flexibility and battery storage.
