Turkey and India’s policies towards battery imports and domestic production, astonishment at China’s 2023 deployment figures and sifting through some ‘bragawatt-hour’ claims in this week’s Friday Briefing.

As India’s Union government prepares the fiscal year 2024-2025 budget for its unveiling, trade group India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) has offered some recommendations to support the technology.

“Overall we are very happy with the direction of the budget,” says Dr Rahul Walawalkar, president of the India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA).

India has committed to helping fund 4,000MWh of battery storage in its Union Budget and will come up with support mechanisms for pumped hydro.

India’s upcoming Union Budget should include tax-based incentives for energy storage, the India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) has said.

The Indian government’s decision to classify grid-scale energy storage as infrastructure addresses the industry’s “biggest concerns” by making investments easier to facilitate, Energy-Storage.news has heard. 

The India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) has welcomed provisions in finance minister Nirmala Sitharam’s Union Budget 2020-2021 to support renewables and prioritise climate change policy, although the group hopes more will be done to support in-country manufacturing of batteries for applications including ESS.

The developing economies of the world are largely located in geographical regions that have abundant renewable energy resources, be they solar, wind, hydro or in some cases geothermal, yet paradoxically at the individual and rural community level, access to energy is often a very real issue. Establishing a continuous chain of temperature controlled cold environments from the point of harvest to the marketplace and on into the home, a ‘cold chain’, is what is required in order to avoid produce spoilage and to connect farmers with higher value market options in distant urban centres or overseas.