Mandatory storage for RE projects likely
Mint Mumbai|September 07, 2023
The Centre looks likely to mandate renewable energy projects with more than 5 megawatt (MW) capacity to install energy storage systems (ESS).
Rituraj Baruah
Mandatory storage for RE projects likely

In its recently released national framework for promoting energy storage systems, the ministry of power said such ESS capacity may be considered during the bidding stage itself and can either be collated with the renewable energy project or integrated with any other storage located elsewhere.

“In order to ensure adequate storage capacity to supply reliable power, new RE (renewable energy) projects (excluding hydro projects) with an installed capacity of over 5MW or as specified by the central government may be mandated to install ESS (of at least 1-hour storage) for minimum 5% of the RE capacity," it said.

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