State To Be Transformed Into Clean Energy Hub, says Bhatti

Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Tuesday said that the government aims to transform the state into a clean energy manufacturing hub. 

Speaking after inaugurating a two-day India Energy Summit & Expo 2026 here, he said the state has designed plans to meet rapidly growing power demand while ensuring environmental sustainability. 

As part of this, the state government aims to expand solar power capacity to 20,000 MW by 2030 and over 26,000 MW by 2035, he



said.

Emphasising the importance of energy storage for renewable energy integration, he said, through battery energy storage and pumped storage projects, the state plans to achieve 3,800 MW storage capacity by 2030 and 8,000 MW by 2035. 

He envisioned making Telangana not just a consumer of clean energy, but a major global manufacturing hub for clean energy technologies. He said Hyderabad's strengths in IT and AI are being leveraged to transform the future power grid into a digital network.