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🌍 #WSDS2026 | #ThematicTracks 🌿 TERI convened a timely and high-impact thematic session at WSDS 2026 on “Accelerating AgriPV in India: From Pilots to Policy-Led Scale-Up” The session brought together leaders from government, multilateral institutions, industry, philanthropy, research, and implementation agencies to discuss how India can move agrivoltaics (AgriPV) from promising pilots to scalable policy and market pathways. Key highlights from the session 1️⃣ AgriPV was framed as a dual-use land strategy, helping address the food–energy–land challenge through better land-use design rather than treating agriculture and solar as competing uses. 2️⃣ The need for farmer-centric models, risk guarantees, grid integration, and evidence-backed crop research was exphasized. 3️⃣ AgriPV should be seen not only as an energy solution but also as a livelihood, resilience, and rural development pathway, with implications for: ▪️crop productivity and climate adaptation. ▪️farmer incomes ▪️women’s livelihoods ▪️local health and environmental benefits ▪️distributed energy access The session marked the launch of the following strategic AgriPV reports to support the AgriPV ecosystem: ✅ Agri PV Potential in India - Pathways for Sustainable Energy–Food Solutions 👉 https://bit.ly/3MDzqhL ✅ Responsible Agri-PV Baseline Assessment Reports, Khare Energy, Madhya Pradesh 👉https://bit.ly/409kuLg ✅ Responsible Agri-PV Baseline Assessment Reports Renkube, Telangana 👉 https://bit.ly/4aYAmFc ✅ Agri-PV DPR Framework 👉 https://bit.ly/3MOfk4l In addition, the AgriPV Business Model Selection Tool was launched to enable stakeholders to evaluate project configurations, assess financial viability, and identify implementation pathways for scalable and responsible deployment. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4citi8U Shri Santosh Kumar Sarangi, Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), noted that agrivoltaics represents a significant new frontier in India’s renewable energy transition and has the potential to become one of the largest AgriPV interventions globally. He highlighted that the government is planning viability gap funding and capital subsidy support to incentivize farmers and accelerate adoption. We extend our sincere thanks to all speakers, panellists, partners, and participants for making this session deeply insightful and action oriented. Girish Sethi | Umang Maheshwari | Ita Kettleborough | Shivkumar Kalyanaraman | Ashish Khanna | Dr Vibha Dhawan | AK Saxena | Vivek Saraf | Subrahmanyam Pulipaka | Zorica Crisolli | Suman Chandra, IAS | Jaimes Kolantharaj | Moez G. Cherif | Suresh Yadav | Kanv Garg | Lakshmi Santhanam | Shweta Srinivasan | The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet | Energy Transitions Commission | India Climate Collaborative | India Agrivoltaics Alliance (IAA) | Renkube #WSDS2026 #AgriPV #Agrivoltaics #EnergyTransition #RenewableEnergy #SolarEnergy #ClimateAction #FoodEnergyWaterNexus #PMKUSUM #IndiaEnergyTransition #SustainableDevelopment