Debmalya Sen, president of the India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA), on a dynamic market landscape of tenders, tariffs and the race to build a domestic battery storage ecosystem.
Wins in competitive solicitations for large-scale battery storage projects in India have been announced by KPI Green Energy Ltd and Power Grid Corporation of India in the past few days.
India’s energy storage industry is at a turning point as developers, financiers, and policymakers work to define viable business models for the next wave of large-scale battery projects.
According to the latest report by clean energy market research firm Mercom India, India achieved a cumulative energy storage capacity of 490MWh by the end of June 2025.
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.
The government Department of Energy (DOE) of the Philippines has opened the initial steps of an auction scheme for renewables paired with energy storage.
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.
The energy regulator in Greece has cancelled the country’s third large-scale energy storage procurement auction due to confusion over limits on how much power capacity could be bid in per participant, with a view to relaunching the scheme.
