We have audited the accompanying financial statements
of Hitachi Energy India Limited (“the Company”), which
comprise the Balance sheet as at March 31, 2026, the
Statement of Profit and Loss, including the statement of
Other Comprehensive Income / (Loss), the Cash Flow
Statement and the Statement of Changes in Equity for the
year then ended, and notes to the financial statements,
including a summary of material accounting policies and
other explanatory information .

In our opinion and to the best of our information and
according to the explanations given to us , the aforesaid
financial statements give the information required by
the Companies Act, 2013, as amended (“the Act”) in
the manner so required and give a true and fair view
in conformity with the accounting principles generally
accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company
as at March 31, 2026, its profit including other
comprehensive income / (Loss), its cash flows and the
changes in equity for the year ended on that date.

BASIS FOR OPINION

We conducted our audit of the financial statements
in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs),
as specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Our
responsibilities under those Standards are further
described in the ‘Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit
of the Financial Statements' section of our report.

We are independent of the Company in accordance
with the ‘Code of Ethics' issued by the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of India together with the
ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of
the financial statements under the provisions of the
Act and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our
other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these
requirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that
the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and
appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on
the financial statements.

KEY AUDIT MATTERS

Key audit matters are those matters that, in our
professional judgment, were of most significance in our
audit of the financial statements for the financial year
ended March 31, 2026. These matters were addressed
in the context of our audit of the financial statements
as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we
do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. For
each matter below, our description of how our audit
addressed the matter is provided in that context.

We have determined the matters described below to be
the key audit matters to be communicated in our report.
We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the
Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial
statements section of our report, including in relation
to these matters. Accordingly, our audit included the
performance of procedures designed to respond to our
assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the
financial statements. The results of our audit procedures,
including the procedures performed to address the
matters below, provide the basis for our audit opinion
on the accompanying financial statements.

INFORMATION OTHER THAN THE FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS AND AUDITOR'S REPORT THEREON

The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the
other information. The other information comprises the
information included in the Annual report, but does not
include the financial statements and our auditor's report
thereon. The Annual report is expected to be made
available to us after the date of this auditor's report.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover
the other information and we do not express any form of
assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements,
our responsibility is to read the other information
identified above when it becomes available and, in
doing so, consider whether such other information is
materially inconsistent with the financial statements
or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise
appears to be materially misstated.

When we read the Annual report, if we conclude that
there is a material misstatement therein, we are required
to communicate the matter to those charged with
governance and take necessary actions as applicable
under the applicable laws and regulations.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MANAGEMENT AND
THOSE CHARGED WITH GOVERNANCE FOR THE
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the
matters stated in section 134(5) of the Act with respect
to the preparation of these financial statements that give
a true and fair view of the financial position, financial
performance including other comprehensive income /
(Loss), cash flows and changes in equity of the Company
in accordance with the accounting principles generally
accepted in India, including the Indian Accounting
Standards (Ind AS) specified under section 133 of
the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting
Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended. This responsibility
also includes maintenance of adequate accounting
records in accordance with the provisions of the Act
for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for
preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities;
selection and application of appropriate accounting
policies; making judgments and estimates that are
reasonable and prudent; and the design, implementation
and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls,
that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy
and completeness of the accounting records, relevant
to the preparation and presentation of the financial
statements that give a true and fair view and are free from
material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, management
is responsible for assessing the Company's ability to
continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable,
matters related to going concern and using the going
concern basis of accounting unless management either
intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations,
or has no realistic alternative but to do so.

Those Board of Directors are also responsible for
overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.

AUDITOR'S RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE AUDIT OF
THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether the financial statements as a whole are free from
material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and
to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion.
Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but
is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance
with SAs will always detect a material misstatement
when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or
error and are considered material if, individually or in
the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to
influence the economic decisions of users taken on the
basis of these financial statements.

As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise
professional judgment and maintain professional
skepticism throughout the audit. We also:

• Identify and assess the risks of material
misstatement of the financial statements, whether

due to fraud or error, design and perform audit
procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain
audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate
to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not
detecting a material misstatement resulting from
fraud is higher than for one resulting from error,
as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional
omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of
internal control.

• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant
to the audit in order to design audit procedures that
are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section
143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for
expressing our opinion on whether the Company
has adequate internal financial controls with
reference to financial statements in place and the
operating effectiveness of such controls.

• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting
policies used and the reasonableness of
accounting estimates and related disclosures made
by management.

• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's
use of the going concern basis of accounting and,
based on the audit evidence obtained, whether
a material uncertainty exists related to events or
conditions that may cast significant doubt on the
Company's ability to continue as a going concern.
If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists,
we are required to draw attention in our auditor's
report to the related disclosures in the financial
statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate,
to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based
on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of
our auditor's report. However, future events or
conditions may cause the Company to cease to
continue as a going concern.

• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and
content of the financial statements, including the
disclosures, and whether the financial statements
represent the underlying transactions and events
in a manner that achieves fair presentation.

We communicate with those charged with governance
regarding, among other matters, the planned scope
and timing of the audit and significant audit findings,
including any significant deficiencies in internal control
that we identify during our audit.

We also provide those charged with governance with
a statement that we have complied with relevant
ethical requirements regarding independence, and
to communicate with them all relationships and other
matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our
independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.

From the matters communicated with those charged with
governance, we determine those matters that were of

most significance in the audit of the financial statements
for the financial year ended March 31, 2026 and are
therefore the key audit matters. We describe these
matters in our auditor's report unless law or regulation
precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in
extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter
should not be communicated in our report because the
adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably
be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of
such communication.

REPORT ON OTHER LEGAL AND REGULATORY
REQUIREMENTS

1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report)
Order, 2020 (“the Order”), issued by the Central
Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of
section 143 of the Act, we give in the “Annexure 1”
a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs
3 and 4 of the Order.

2. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report
to the extent applicable, that:

(a) We have sought and obtained all the
information and explanations which to the best
of our knowledge and belief were necessary
for the purposes of our audit;

(b) In our opinion, proper books of account
as required by law have been kept by the
Company so far as it appears from our
examination of those books except that the
backup of the books of account and other
books and papers maintained in electronic
mode has not been maintained on server
physically located in India on daily basis for
certain applications as detailed in note 45A
of the financial statements and as detailed
in note 45B of the financial statements for
the matters stated in the paragraph (f) and
paragraph (i)(vi)) below on reporting under
Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and
Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended;

(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit
and Loss including the Statement of Other
Comprehensive Income / (Loss), the Cash
Flow Statement and Statement of Changes
in Equity dealt with by this Report are in
agreement with the books of account;

(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid financial
statements comply with the Accounting
Standards specified under Section 133 of the
Act, read with Companies (Indian Accounting
Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended;

(e) On the basis of the written representations
received from the directors as on March
31, 2026 taken on record by the Board of
Directors, none of the directors are disqualified

as on March 31, 2026 from being appointed
as a director in terms of Section 164 (2) of
the Act;

(f) The modification relating to the maintenance
of accounts and other matters connected
therewith are as stated in the paragraph (b)
above on reporting under Section 143(3)
(b) and paragraph (i(vi)) below on reporting
under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and
Auditors) Rules, 2014 as amended;

(g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal
financial controls with reference to these
financial statements and the operating
effectiveness of such controls, refer to our
separate Report in “Annexure 2” to this report;

(h) In our opinion, the managerial remuneration
for the year ended March 31, 2026 has
been paid / provided by the Company to its
directors in accordance with the provisions of
section 197 read with Schedule V to the Act.

(i) With respect to the other matters to be
included in the Auditor's Report in accordance
with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and
Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended in our
opinion and to the best of our information and
according to the explanations given to us:

i. The Company has disclosed the impact, if
any, of pending litigations on its financial
position in its financial statements -
Refer note 34 to the accompanying
financial statements;

ii. The Company has made provision,
as required under the applicable law
or accounting standards, for material
foreseeable losses, if any, on long¬
term contracts including derivative
contracts - Refer notes 18 and 21 to the
accompanying financial statements;

iii. There has been no delay in transferring
amounts, required to be transferred, to
the Investor Education and Protection
Fund by the Company;

iv. a) The management has represented

that, to the best of its knowledge
and belief, as disclosed in the note
44 to the accompanying financial
statements, no funds have been
advanced or loaned or invested
(either from borrowed funds or share
premium or any other sources or kind
of funds) by the Company to or in any
other persons or entities, including
foreign entities (“Intermediaries”),

with the understanding, whether
recorded in writing or otherwise,
that the Intermediary shall, whether,
directly or indirectly lend or invest in
other persons or entities identified
in any manner whatsoever by or on
behalf of the Company (“Ultimate
Beneficiaries”) or provide any
guarantee, security or the like on
behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;

b) The management has represented
that, to the best of its knowledge
and belief, as disclosed in the note
44 to the accompanying financial
statements, no funds have been
received by the Company from
any persons or entities, including
foreign entities (“Funding Parties”),
with the understanding, whether
recorded in writing or otherwise,
that the Company shall, whether,
directly or indirectly, lend or invest in
other persons or entities identified
in any manner whatsoever by or
on behalf of the Funding Party
(“Ultimate Beneficiaries”} or
provide any guarantee, security or
the like on behalf of the Ultimate
Beneficiaries; and

c) Based on such audit procedures
performed that have been
considered reasonable and
appropriate in the circumstances,
nothing has come to our notice that
has caused us to believe that the
representations under sub-clause
(a} and (b) of Rule 11(e) contain any
material misstatement.

v. The final dividend paid by the Company
during the year in respect of the same
declared for the previous year is in
accordance with section 123 of the
Act to the extent it applies to payment
of dividend.

As stated in note 16 to the accompanying
financial statements, the Board of
Directors of the Company have proposed
final dividend for the year which is subject
to the approval of the members at the
ensuing Annual General Meeting. The
dividend declared is in accordance with
section 123 of the Act to the extent it
applies to declaration of dividend.

vi. Based on our examination which included test
checks and as described in note 45B to the
financial statements, the Company has used
accounting softwares for maintaining its books
of account which has a feature of recording audit
trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated
throughout the year for all relevant transactions
recorded in the software except that, audit trail
feature is not enabled for direct changes to data
when using certain access rights in case of an
accounting software. Further, during the course of
our audit we did not come across any instance of
audit trail feature being tampered with, in respect
of accounting softwares where the audit trail has
been enabled.

Additionally, the audit trail of relevant prior years
has been preserved by the Company as per the
statutory requirements for record retention, to
the extent it was enabled and recorded in those
respective years, as stated in note 45B to the
financial statements.

For S.R. Batliboi & Associates LLP

Chartered Accountants

ICAI Firm Registration Number: 101049W/E300004

per Sandeep Karnani

Partner

Membership Number: 061207

UDIN: 26061207RJZSJD9376

Place: Mumbai

Date: May 25, 2026