India Energy Storage Alliance president Debmalya Sen takes a comprehensive look at national and regional efforts to promote and deploy much-needed energy storage capacity.
A battery storage ‘gigafactory’ in India will commence operation in October this year, with a planned ramp-up to 20GWh annual production capacity within three years.
An Indian government scheme to support domestic battery manufacturing received bids totalling 130GWh of proposals, more than double the anticipated 50GWh of capacity the incentives will support.
India’s first grid-scale solar-plus-storage tender has been held up by the extreme drop in the country’s solar PV prices this year, according to Rahul Walawalkar, executive director of the Indian Energy Storage Alliance.
What is thought to be India’s first grid-scale energy storage array will be developed and delivered by a joint partnership between system provider AES and Mitsubishi Corporation, it was announced.