Yokogawa at BRESE 2026: Making India’s Clean Energy Assets Smarter, More Reliable and Efficient
India’s clean energy ambitions demand more than new capacity. At BRESE 2026, Yokogawa India showcased how digital twins, predictive analytics and industrial automation can make renewable energy assets smarter, safer and more reliable.
India’s renewable energy transition is entering a new phase where operational efficiency, digitalisation and asset reliability are becoming as important as capacity addition. At the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit and Expo (BRESE) 2026, Yokogawa India highlighted how industrial automation, digital twins, predictive analytics and autonomous operations can help solar, wind, battery storage and green hydrogen projects deliver reliable long-term performance.
India has set itself a big target: 500 GW of non-fossil capacity by 2030. Getting there takes more than installing panels, turbines, and batteries. Every new asset must connect to the grid, run reliably in tough conditions, and deliver what was promised on paper. That thread ran through Yokogawa India’s participation at the Bharat Renewables Energy Summit and Expo (BRESE) 2026.
Real Work Starts After Commissioning
Much of the conversation around renewables focuses on how fast capacity can be added. Operators have a different concern: how well it runs once it’s built. Solar plants in Rajasthan deal with heat and dust. Wind farms are spread across remote sites. Battery storage is new for many developers, and the rooftop and distributed segment is growing quickly, with thousands of small assets to track.
Yokogawa India’s message at the event was that these problems are familiar, even if the setting is new. For more than a century, Yokogawa has helped refineries, power plants, chemical units and water utilities measure, control and monitor their operations. The company’s view is that the same discipline- getting accurate data from the field and using it to run assets better- applies directly to renewables.
What Yokogawa Is Doing in Renewable Energy
Yokogawa India works with customers across the energy transition, from solar, wind, and storage to emerging areas like green hydrogen and ammonia. Its role covers three broad areas.
The first is reliable measurement and control, the foundation of any safe and efficient plant. The second is energy management, helping operators balance generation, storage, and demand as the grid becomes more variable. The third is digital operations: remote monitoring, analytics, and plant models that let a small team monitor assets spread across a large area.
At the booth, the team showed how these pieces fit together, rather than presenting them as a list of products. The event brought together people from every part of the renewable value chain, from those building and financing projects to those operating and regulating them, and the conversations reflected that range. The common thread was predictability: how to make a renewable asset perform as planned, year after year.
Renewables Are Not a Separate Sector
A point that came up often at BRESE is that renewable energy no longer stands alone. It is becoming part of how every other industry operates. Refineries, fertilizer plants, steel makers, and chemical producers are looking to source cleaner power, and India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission is pushing many of them to produce green hydrogen and ammonia as well.
That is where Yokogawa’s position is useful. The company already works across these industries in India, so it understands both sides of the connection: the renewable source and the industrial process that depends on it. A green hydrogen plant, for example, must balance a variable power supply with a process that needs steady, safe operation. Solving that takes people who know both worlds, and it is the kind of problem Yokogawa is built to help with.
Bringing Japanese Engineering into the Indian Context
Yokogawa’s roots are in Japan, and the focus on quality and long-term reliability comes from there. In India, though, the work is local. Yokogawa India has its own engineering, service, and support teams who understand Indian operating conditions, project timelines, and customer priorities. Technology developed elsewhere only becomes useful when adapted to the site where it will run, and that adaptation happens in India, with Indian customers and partners.
This also fits the broader India–Japan partnership on clean energy and industrial technology, where the shared goal is to build capability in the country and not just supply equipment.
IA2IA and the Move Toward Autonomous Operations
Yokogawa describes its direction as IA2IA, which stands for industrial automation to industrial autonomy. The idea is simple. Automation already handles routine control. Autonomy means systems that can also spot changes, adjust, and improve on their own, leaving people to focus on decisions that need human judgment.
In renewables, that can be quite practical. A solar plant could detect that output from certain sections is dropping because of dust and flag when cleaning will pay off. A battery system could adjust charging and discharging based on weather forecasts and demand. A wind farm could detect a turbine drifting from expected performance and raise the issue before it becomes a breakdown. In each case, operators get fewer surprises and more time to focus on the decisions that matter.
On the Panel: Digital Twins and Predictive Analytics
Yuki Furuya, Head of Energy and Sustainability Business at Yokogawa India, was among the panelists at the session “Digital Twins and Predictive Analytics: Accelerating RE, DRE and BESS Deployment.” He explained how Yokogawa’s BaxEnergy solutions and digital twins help operators shift from reacting to problems to predicting and preventing them. He said the priority for the next two to three years is making plants data-ready, with reliable, accessible, and well-structured data at every site.
Looking Ahead
BRESE 2026 reminded us that the next phase of India’s renewable story is as much about operations as construction. Yokogawa India will keep working with developers, utilities and industry partners to help new energy assets run safely, efficiently and reliably for the long term.
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