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28 January 2026

Aluminium Batteries and the Long Game for Viksit Bharat 2047

India’s energy storage future may depend less on lithium parity and more on designing systems around aluminium’s strengths

Homen Lahan is a Research Scientist at the Centre of Excellence in Battery Engineering, Atria University. Parvez Alam Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business, Atria University. Carmel Mary Esther Alphonse is the CEO and Co-founder at Azygos Global Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 

SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure | SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Ministry of Power MoP | Ministry of New and Renewable Energy MNRE | Ministry of Heavy Industries MoHI | Department of Science and Technology DST

The discussion in this article is based on the authors’ research published in Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy (2025). Views are personal.

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