Latest Battery Energy Storage News in India July'21

Latest Battery Energy Storage News from around India

1. Largest storage tender India: The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has issued a notice inviting a tender for 2,000 MWh of standalone energy storage systems. The projects have to be set up on a build-own-operate (BOO) basis.As this is only a notice announcing the tender, no details about the projects to be developed are available yet. The detailed tender document is likely to be made available on August 31, 2021.
2. 4 GWh Grid scale battery storage: The government plans to call bids for setting up around 4000-megawatt hour (MWh) of grid-scale battery storage system at regional load dispatch centres (RLDCs).India has 33 SLDCs, five RLDCs—for the five regional grids that form the national grid—and one National Load Despatch Centre (NLDC). NTPC Ltd had recently floated a global tender for 1 GWh of grid-scale battery storage.
3. First Hybrid Energy storage Project:Vision Mechatronics has announced establishing a Megawatt-scale Hybrid Energy Storage Project in Haryana. The hybrid project has a combination of Lithium Batteries together with Tubular Gel Batteries (lead-acid variant) to achieve economic long duration backup.
4. End to End EV Charging: Tata Power is collaborating with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) to provide end-to-end electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at the HPCL’s retail outlets at multiple cities and major highways across the country. Under the pact, Tata Power will provide its EV charging infrastructure at HPCL petrol pumps for users.
5. Aluminium Batteries vs Lithium batteries for India:“Clearly the special consideration here is that aluminum is in better supply than lithium,” said James Frith, Head of Energy Storage at BNEF in London. “But with the ever-falling prices of lithium-based systems, developers will be under pressure to find niche applications where Aluminum-Oxygen can gain a foothold.”Demand both from electric transport and renewable energy storage means India could provide a market big enough for aluminum-air batteries to find a role.
6. Industrial waste for Energy Storage: Spent catalysts from the energy industry or the raw material for recycling operation could work as an efficient bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst. These materials deliver fresh catalysts and valuable metals and can catalyze the core reactions that facilitate the operation of metal-air batteries.