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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.
An NTPC solar PV plant with some of the power producer's thermal plant fleet in the background. Image: NTPC.

India: SECI reveals solar-plus-storage tender winners, JSW Energy appeals CERC tariff decision

January 7, 2025
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has revealed the results of a reverse auction for solar PV paired with battery storage that will connect to the Inter State Transmission System (ISTS).
Around 90% of Kerala State Electricity Board Limited's power generation is from hydroelectric, with solar at about 10% and growing. Image: KSEBL.

India: SECI launches 500MWh BESS tender with Viability Gap Funding in Kerala

December 27, 2024
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has launched a 150MW/500MWh battery storage solicitation in Kerala.
A Sembcorp solar PV plant in India. The company noted in its announcement that 6GW of its total 16.5GW global renewables portfolio is in the country. Image: Sembcorp India

Singapore’s Sembcorp wins solar-plus-storage contract with Solar Energy Corporation of India

December 18, 2024
Sembcorp has successfully bid into a Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) tender to build a large-scale solar PV project paired with battery storage.
NTPC's Ramagundam coal power plant, where the BESS would be located. Image: wikimedia user Getsuhas08

India’s NTPC tenders turnkey EPC contract for 100MW BESS in Telangana

October 15, 2024
India’s government-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has launched a tender to deliver a 100MW/400MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).
India's biggest solar-plus-storage project (pictured) pairs 40MW/120MWh of battery storage with a 100MWac PV plant in Chhattisgarh. It too was supported by SECI. Image: PIB Delhi

India: SECI launches tender for 2GW solar PV paired with 4GWh energy storage

August 1, 2024
A new tender from the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) seeks 2,000MW of solar PV combined with 1,000MW/4,000MWh of energy storage system (ESS) technology.
Wandoan South, a Vena Energy BESS project in Queensland, Australia. Image: Vena Energy.

India: 630MW awarded in dispatchable renewables tender, Sterling & Wilson 1GWh EPC contract

July 26, 2024
The latest Firm Dispatchable Renewable Energy (FDRE) tender, hosted by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), has selected winners.
Screenshot of winning bids, posted to LinkedIn by WEF's Debmalya Sen.

SECI tender a ‘game changer’ for low-cost renewables and energy storage in India

July 17, 2024
Winning bids as low as IR3.41/kWh (US$0.041/kWh) have been registered in a tender for solar PV paired with battery storage hosted by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).
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.
India's biggest solar-plus-storage project (pictured) pairs 40MW/120MWh of battery storage with a 100MWac PV plant in Chhattisgarh. It too was supported by SECI. Image: PIB Delhi

SECI launches 1,000MW/2,000MWh standalone BESS tender, India’s biggest to date

July 1, 2024
Solar Energy Corporation of India is tendering for BESS resources with aggregate output and capacity of 1,000MW/2,000MWh.

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