A government-controlled corporation in India is setting out to procure 500 megawatts of stand-alone battery storage for two sites in the state of Rajasthan.
The mid-April tender for 500 MW/1,000 MWh of storage capacity “is expected to be the first stage in a procurement drive for 4,000MWh of BESS in total,” Energy Storage News reports, in a post republished by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The systems will connect directly to the country’s inter-state transmission system (ISTS).
“In order to support the deployment and integration of 500 GW of new non-fossil fuel energy capacity, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has modelled a need for 27 GW/108 GWh of battery storage by 2029-2030, in addition to 10,151 MW of pumped hydro energy storage,” the news story states.
