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Latest Battery Energy Storage News in India June'21

BESS
14 July, 2021

Latest Battery Energy Storage News from around India

  1. 1 GWh grid scale Energy Storage: NTPC has invited expression of interest (EOI) for setting up 1000 MWh of grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) at its power plants in India. The tender is completely open, allowing domestic, global or firms in a consortium to bid for the opportunity. Earlier in the month, NTPC invited bids to install a 4 MW ground-mounted solar project with a 1 MW/1 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at the NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance (NETRA) facility in Greater Noida.
  2. 1GWh Li battery factory: LNJ Bhilwara has formed a joint venture with Pune-based Replus Engitech to create lithium battery solutions for 1 GWh capacity operational in Pune by mid-2022 and eventually scale it to 5 GWh by 2024.
  3. Govt. PLI Scheme: Adani Group, Tata Chemicals, Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T), and a joint venture led by Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp. have shown interest in making lithium-ion cell manufacturing plants in India under the scheme.
  4. Storage X: ReNewPower announced a collaboration agreement with the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University and its StorageX Initiative, which is an academic-industry-government initiative that aims to solve the most pressing real-world challenges in battery storage.
  5. 0.4 million charging stations: According to Grant Thornton Bharat-Ficci report, India needs about 0.4 million charging stations to meet the requirement for 2 million Electric Vehicles (EV) by 2026.
  6. PLI Scheme for ACC batteries update: Production linked incentives for manufacturing advanced chemistry cell batteries will be offered only to those firms that have been allocated the production capacity under the national programme on ACC battery storage through a transparent mechanism. Also, the beneficiary firm will have to commit to set up a minimum of five GWh (Gigawatt hours) of ACCs manufacturing facility.
  7. Battery Storage for ancillary services: Central Electricity Regulatory Commission has drafted ancillary services market regulations allowing for energy storage and demand response resources to participate. The commission has recognised that energy storage and demand response, which are digitally controllable and dispatchable energy and power resources, can respond rapidly and accurately to the need to maintain grid frequency within close boundaries of the 50Hz.
References:

  1. https://www.saurenergy.com/solar-energy-news/battery-storage-warms-up-with-ntpc-1-gwh-tender-for-eoi
  2. https://www.pv-magazine-india.com/2021/06/29/lnj-bhilwara-replus-to-set-up-a-1-gwh-lithium-ion-battery-plant/
  3. https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/companies/adani-tata-lt-vying-to-build-lithium-ion-business-under-govts-pli-scheme-report-6981241.html
  4. https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/power/renew-power-joins-hands-with-precourt-institute-for-energy/83358249
  5. https://www.business-standard.com/article/automobile/india-to-require-400-000-charging-stations-for-2-mn-evs-by-2026-report-121061200880_1.html
  6. https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/govt-notifies-rs-18-100-cr-pli-scheme-to-promote-acc-battery-making-121062101148_1.html
  7. https://www.energy-storage.news/news/india-prepares-to-open-up-ancillary-services-market-to-energy-storage
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