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Union Power Minister Manohar Lal gave a keynote address at India Energy Storage Week 2025. Image: Manohar Lal via X.

India has held tenders for 171GWh of energy storage capacity since 2018

July 10, 2025
Tenders for 171GWh of energy storage capacity have been launched in India, including more than 55GWh in the first half of 2025 alone.
Chhattisgarh, India. One of the country's first large-scale solar-plus-storage sites, inaugurated in February 2024 with SECI playing an instrumental role. Image: Press Information Bureau of India (PIB).

India: SECI launches major Solar+BESS tender, CEA issues BESS safety regulations

June 24, 2025
India’s renewable energy-adjacent battery storage sector rolls on, with new procurement and regulatory moves from SECI and CEA.
The first operational 1GW phase of Adani Green Energy's 30GW Khavda solar PV plant in Gujarat, India. Image: Adani Green Energy

Adani Green Energy signs 40-year PPA for 1.25GW pumped hydro in Uttar Pradesh, India

April 25, 2025
Adani Green Energy subsidiary has signed a power purchase agreement with Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited for a pumped hydro facility.
Coal India and EDF India representatives signing a term sheet to collaborate on pumped hydro and other hydroelectric facilities. Image: Coal India.

Adani Green Energy to build 1,250MW pumped hydro plant in Uttar Pradesh, India

February 28, 2025
Adani Green Energy has been awarded a 1,250MW pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Battery storage equipment and transmission infrastructure at a solar-plus-storage project in Chhattisgarh, India. Image: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy via Government of India Press Information Bureau.

India’s Central Electricity Authority recommends energy storage requirement for solar PV tenders

February 26, 2025
The Indian Central Electricity Authority has advised state utilities and all renewable energy implementing agencies to co-locate energy storage systems (ESS) with solar PV in future tenders.
BII and Norfund executives with InidiGrid CEO Harsh Shah (centre) launching EnerGrid at COP29. Image: IndiGrid

IndiGrid launches India BESS platform with British, Norwegian government co-investors at COP29

November 13, 2024
India Grid Trust (IndiGrid) and development finance institutions from Great Britain and Norway have launched a transmission and battery storage development platform.
Existing hydroelectric facilities at Indravati Dam, Odisha, where the 600MW PHES plant is being developed. Image: wikimedia user Debasish Rout.

Government fast track towards construction for two pumped hydro projects in India

August 5, 2024
The Central Electricity Authority of India (CEA) is fast-tracking two large-scale pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) projects totalling 2,600MW of power.
Mercom's chart of the rapid growth in installed BESS capacity in India. Image: Mercom.

Mercom: 90% of India’s 219MWh BESS fleet is paired with solar PV generation

July 11, 2024
India’s cumulative battery energy storage system (BESS) installations stood at 219.1MWh at the end of March 2024, according to Mercom India.
A 19.3MW floating solar PV plant under construction in Israel. Image: BELECTRIC.

Israel adds energy storage-friendly tariffs to maximise renewable energy potential

April 17, 2023
The Electricity Authority of Israel (PUA) has introduced a supplementary tariff for PV facilities combined with energy storage.
Inauguration of India's first 10MW grid-scale BESS, in 2019. Image: Tata Power.

India’s tenders mark beginning of an ‘energy storage revolution’

July 5, 2022
India is on the “cusp of a potential energy storage revolution,” according to authors of a new report on tenders launched in the country.

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