Despite growing demand from energy-intensive industrial sectors, solar open access projects are not seeing much traction in Telangana due to a lack of policy clarity. Open-access developers claim that consumers can save up to ₹5 (~$0.06)/kWh under the captive model, whereas under the third-party open-access model, the savings could be approximately ₹1 (~$0.01)/kWh. At a recent Mercom India C&I Clean Energy Meet session titled ‘Clean Power Purchase – Switching to Renewable Energy And Optimizing Savings’ in Hyderabad, project developers discussed the reasons for lower adoption, the viability of different types of open access models, and the feasibility of adding battery energy storage with solar.