India has too much electricity at noon and not enough at 7 PM. In 2025, India added 38 GW of new solar capacity, a national record [1]. Between May and December of that same year, the grid operator switched off 2.3 TWh of solar generation, enough to power half of India's entire 50,000-bus electrification ambition for a full year [2], because the grid had no place to send it. Solar developers received an estimated ₹575–690 crore ($6.05–7.26M) in compensation for energy they ge

Fast charging is not a slow solution waiting to get faster. It is the wrong architecture for commercial electric fleets. For passenger cars, driven a few hours a day and parked overnight at home, fast charging is viable and will remain so. Commercial fleets are a different problem entirely. A bus running sixteen hours a day cannot spend ninety minutes of that charging. A depot cannot stagger its way out of a problem that appears at two buses. A distribution grid in a dense In