India could require as much as 160GWh of energy storage to help integrate a planned 500GW of new non-fossil fuel resources by 2030, according to trade group India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA). Image: Tata Power Solar.
JSW Renew Energy Five has been given the official notice to go ahead with two large-scale battery storage projects it was awarded in a tender by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).
Government-owned SECI launched the pilot tender last April, seeking bidders for the delivery of two equally sized 250MW/500MWh battery energy storage systems (BESS). These will be installed at adjacent sites to connect to India’s Inter-State Transmission System from a substation in Fatehgarh in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
One of the bigger stories in what was a busy year for the Indian clean energy sector, SECI designed the tender to be widely replicable so it…