India Hosts 7th Agrivoltaics World Conference 2026 in New Delhi with Global Participation

Key facts

• The 7th AgriVoltaics World Conference (AWC) 2026 commenced at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, hosted in the Global South for the first time, under the theme 'Powering the Global South'.
• The three-day conference is hosted by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) with support from Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUV), and organised with Conexio-PSE.
• Over 1,200 delegates, including more than 150 foreign participants, are attending the conference, which features a dedicated India Focus Track alongside two parallel scientific tracks and an AgriVoltaics Pitch Hub for start-ups.
• Three knowledge resources were launched at the conference: the Decision-Making Tool by the India Agrivoltaics Alliance (IAA), the Book of Abstracts by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and the AgriPV Policy Handbook by MNRE.
• Key speakers included Union Ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Pralhad Joshi, MNRE Secretary Santosh K. Sarangi, and German Federal Minister Carsten Schneider, who addressed via video message, with closing remarks by German Ambassador Jasper Wieck.
• The conference embodies the vision 'From Power to Empower', positioning farmers as both food producers (Annadatas) and clean-energy producers (Urjadatas).