https://exceptional.technology/varaha-biochar-carbon-credits-microsoft-google/ 2026-10-18 monthly 0.8 https://exceptional.technology/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/farmers_biochar.jpg From Cotton Waste to Carbon Credits: Inside Varaha, the Gurugram Startup Selling Carbon Removal to Microsoft and Google Image credit: Varaha ClimateAg — official company visual. Every harvest season in Maharashtra’s cotton belt, millions of tonnes of cotton stalks — the woody residue left after the harvest — are cleared the cheapest way available: set on fire. Gurugram-based Varaha ClimateAg has built a company around an alternative.... https://exceptional.technology/enerzolve-power-conversion-solid-state-transformer-bengaluru/ 2026-10-17 monthly 0.8 https://exceptional.technology/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/enerzolve-pcs-cabinet.jpg No iron, no oil: inside Enerzolve, the Bengaluru startup rebuilding India’s grid hardware Image credit: Enerzolve Smart Technologies Solar panels get the ribbon-cuttings and batteries get the headlines. But between a solar farm’s direct-current output and the alternating current your home actually uses sits a box that decides whether the whole energy transition works: the power conversion system. For yea... https://exceptional.technology/hyperonic-engineering-hydrogen-dispenser-pune/ 2026-10-16 monthly 0.8 https://exceptional.technology/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/hyperonic-engineering-official-logo.png The missing middle of India’s hydrogen bet: inside Hyperonic Engineering’s homegrown dispenser Image credit: Hyperonic Engineering India has decided that hydrogen will help move its heaviest cargo. Electrolysers are being manufactured in Mangaluru and Bengaluru, fuel-cell truck programmes are running, and the National Green Hydrogen Mission is pouring money into production. But there is a question no amount o... https://exceptional.technology/hydgen-250kw-electrolysers-mangaluru/ 2026-10-16 monthly 0.8 https://exceptional.technology/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/aem_hero.webp Hydrogen on tap: inside HYDGEN, the Mangaluru startup scaling electrolysers to 250 kW Most industrial hydrogen in India still arrives the old way — compressed into cylinders, loaded onto trucks, and driven to the factory gate. In Mangaluru, a startup is betting the future looks more like a tap: make the hydrogen where you use it, on demand, and skip the logistics entirely. The company is HYDGEN (Hydr... https://exceptional.technology/from-plasma-to-polysilicon-inside-evoxia-the-chennai-startup-forging-a-cleaner-path-to-solar-grade-silicon/ 2026-10-15 monthly 0.8 https://exceptional.technology/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/evoxia-logo.png From plasma to polysilicon: inside Evoxia, the Chennai startup forging a cleaner path to solar-grade silicon India makes solar panels at scale — the country has some 144 gigawatts of module capacity — but the foundation they stand on is imported in its entirety: polysilicon, the ultra-pure feedstock every solar cell and semiconductor starts from, comes almost exclusively from China. A Chennai startup wants to break that de... https://exceptional.technology/hypersonic-technologies-chennai-methane-hydrogen-carbon-black/ 2026-10-14 monthly 0.8 https://exceptional.technology/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/hypersonic-technologies-logo.png Two Products, No CO₂: Inside Hypersonic Technologies, the Chennai Startup Splitting Methane Into Hydrogen and Carbon Black The dirtiest feedstock in industry might become its cleanest business model. At a lab inside IIT Madras, a reactor roughly the size of a suitcase splits methane into two streams — hydrogen gas and a fine black powder — without sending carbon dioxide out the stack. The powder is carbon black, the reinforcing filler i... https://exceptional.technology/meine-electric-iron-air-battery-rust-power/ 2026-10-13 monthly 0.8 https://exceptional.technology/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/meine-electric-iron-air-battery.jpg Meine Electric: The Chennai Startup Turning Rust Into Round-the-Clock Power At NTPC’s Simhadri Thermal Power Station in Andhra Pradesh, a battery made of rust, air and water is about to work its first real shift. Chennai-based Meine Electric will deploy its first pilot iron-air battery system at the plant — a “multi hundred” kilowatt-hour installation expected to be completed by early 2027.... https://exceptional.technology/sea6-energy-seaweed-biofuel-crude-oil/ 2026-10-12 monthly 0.8 https://exceptional.technology/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/b4_03_featured.jpg Sea6 Energy: Farming Seaweed to Replace Crude Oil, One Sq Km at a Time Sea6 Energy runs a 1-sq-km mechanised seaweed farm off Indonesia and turns biomass into biocrude. Replacing oil needs 120,000+ sq km of ocean. https://exceptional.technology/inoxcva-cryogenic-pipes-iter-tokamak/ 2026-10-12 monthly 0.8 https://exceptional.technology/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/b3_03_featured-1.webp INOXCVA: India’s Cryogenic Pipes for the World’s Largest Tokamak Vadodara’s INOX India built 10 km of cryogenic piping at −269°C for ITER, the world’s largest tokamak — the coldest plumbing on Earth. https://exceptional.technology/solavio-waterless-solar-panel-cleaning-robot/ 2026-10-12 monthly 0.8 https://exceptional.technology/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/b3_02_featured.jpg Solavio: The Waterless Robot Cleaning India’s Solar Boom Coimbatore’s Solavio builds waterless robots that dry-clean solar panels — tackling a wash-water problem sized at 4 billion litres. https://exceptional.technology/pranos-fusion-pragya-tokamak/ 2026-10-12 monthly 0.8 https://exceptional.technology/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/b3_featured.jpg PRAGYA: Inside Pranos Fusion’s Bid to Build India’s First Private Tokamak A 12-person Bengaluru startup built India’s first private tokamak, PRAGYA, in eight months. Inside Pranos Fusion’s bid — and the gaps.