Utility Scale Storage

KP Group has partnered with GH2 Solar and South Korea’s AHES Co. Ltd. to establish and operate a green ammonia production facility in India with a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per annum.

ACME Solar will develop a project combining solar and battery energy storage system to ensure 50 MW firm and dispatchable renewable power supply.

Ashok Leyland will develop and manufacture batteries for EVs and energy storage systems in partnership with China’s CALB Group.

Greenzo Energy India Ltd has received an order from Jindal Stainless Ltd (JSL), India’s largest stainless-steel manufacturer, for the supply, erection, installation, and commissioning of an advanced electrolyser-based green hydrogen plant at JSL’s Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex in Jajpur, Odisha.

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is set to begin production at its upcoming battery gigafactory in 2026, with an initial annual capacity of 40 GWh. The facility will later be modularly scaled up to 100 GWh per annum, announced Anant Ambani, executive director of RIL, during the company’s annual general meeting recently.

Researchers at CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute thermally encapsulated organic redox molecules within multiwalled carbon nanotubes to form a stable and flowable slurry for use as high-capacity catholytes in aqueous zinc flow batteries. The assembled batteries using these catholytes exhibited excellent cycling stability at an applied current density of 1.0 mA cm⁻², with a Coulombic efficiency of 99%.

The lowest green ammonia price discovered so far in the SIGHT Mode 2A auctions is just 10.1% higher than the current grey ammonia prices in India (US$515 per MT). Notably, the low cost of Rs 49.75 per kg in the Mode 2A auctions is almost half of a similar green ammonia auction conducted by H2Global in 2024, suggesting an imminent price parity between grey and green ammonia.

Transmission Corp. of Andhra Pradesh Ltd (APTRANSCO) has invited bids for setting up a 2 GWh (1 GW x 2 hours) standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) in Andhra Pradesh. The project will be supported by viability gap funding (VGF) through the Power System Development Fund.

Sunsure Energy has secured the agreement to supply power from a 125 MW/500 MWh standalone battery energy storage system (BESS), to be developed on a build-own-operate basis. NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd (NVVN) will act as the intermediary procurer, with Uttar Pradesh Power Corp. Ltd (UPPCL) as the end procurer.

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