Oct 12, 2021
By: Shadab RabbaniThe Energy storage policy is a framework of policies to help India’s push of adopting greener energy sources and the integration of renewable energy with its mainstream power system.
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The storages will be a reserve of energy produced by wind and solar power to provide stabilised supply to its power grids.
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Currently, the energy produced by both solar and wind energy are at irregular intervals and it doesn’t provide balanced supply to power stations.
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In Hydropower plants, the stored energy can be utilised to raise the levels of water and then supplied to reservoirs to generate electricity.
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At the moment, India has about 100GW of installed solar and wind capacity and 63GW is under construction.
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By 2030, India is looking to have 450GW of renewable energy capacity. By next year, the target is to reach 175GW of renewable power capacity.
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The policy would focus on regulatory, financial and taxation, demand management and technological aspects in order to speed up the implementation of storage capacity.
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India is currently looking to set up a 14GWh grid-scale battery storage system at the renewable energy park at Khavda in Gujarat.
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It is also planning to set-up a 13GWh battery storage system in Ladakh and, by 2030, it requires 27GW of grid-scale battery energy storage systems with four hours of storage.
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