India’s cleantech manufacturing ambition cannot be realized through sector-specific interventions alone. While demand across solar, wind, batteries, e-mobility, green hydrogen, and high-voltage transmission is scaling rapidly, domestic value addition today remains limited at roughly 20–55% across these value chains. As a result, India’s cleantech import bill, estimated at approximately USD 18 billion in 2024–25, could rise to USD 65–97 billion annually by 2030 without deeper indigenization.

As part of the Bharat Climate Forum, Bharat Climate Forum, in collaboration with Dalberg undertook a set of cross-sectoral analyses that cut across six priority cleantech value chains to identify the systemic reforms required to enable around 50% domestic value addition by 2030. This analysis complements the sectoral deep dives by focusing on the horizontal enablers: demand and market architecture; research, development, and product innovation; upstream raw materials and critical inputs; capital equipment and infrastructure; talent and workforce; and financing and taxation, which determine the pathways to indigenize cleantech manufacturing in India.

This work is grounded in extensive data analysis, stakeholder consultations, and collaboration with leading knowledge partners including CEEW (green hydrogen), MEC+ (wind), and Trilegal (financing and taxation), who supported the analytical development and validation of the pathways.