Pralhad Joshi calls India to BRE Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam
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India's clean-energy ambitions are heading to a single address from 2 to 5 November 2026 — and Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi wants the country's brightest minds, builders and investors in the room. In a post on Friday, 30 October 2026, Joshi threw open the gates to the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit & Expo 2026, calling on innovators and collaborators to help 'shape the future of clean energy.'
New Delhi's biggest renewables gathering takes the floor at Bharat Mandapam
The summit will be held at Bharat Mandapam, the landmark convention centre in New Delhi that has hosted some of the country's most consequential national and international gatherings. Joshi framed the event as a defining moment: 'The next chapter of India's renewable energy journey will be shaped by innovation, collaboration and bold ideas.' Registration and exhibition slots are open through the official summit portal.
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, which Joshi heads alongside the Consumer Affairs portfolio, has been at the centre of India's push to hit 500 GW of non-fossil fuel capacity by 2030 — a target India committed to at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021. Sector-wide summits like this one serve a dual purpose in that mission: attracting domestic and foreign investment while showcasing the output of manufacturers scaling up under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme.
Why the 2026 summit matters to India's 500 GW clock
India has pursued solar and wind capacity additions at a pace few anticipated a decade ago, and has stacked newer bets — green hydrogen, battery storage, offshore wind — on top of that base. The International Solar Alliance, co-launched in 2015, gave India a multilateral platform; domestic summits fill in the ground-level gap, pulling clean-energy startups, utilities and policymakers into the same hall.
With the next Union Budget cycle approaching and questions still live around renewable purchase obligations and viability gap funding for storage projects, the timing of a large industry expo is deliberate. Announcements that flow from events like BRE Summit often feed directly into the policy pipeline — or pressure it.
Firms looking to participate can register to attend or apply to exhibit at bresummit.in. Four days, one venue, and a minister personally amplifying the call to show up. India's energy transition rarely waits — and neither, it seems, does Joshi.