India’s energy storage pipeline
Author: PPD Team Date: November 24, 2025
India’s energy storage sector has seen a sharp rise in tender activity from 2018 to 2025. A total of 138 tenders covered 51 GW of renewable energy capacity and 196 GWh of energy storage capacity. Pumped storage projects account for 114 GWh, and battery systems account for 81 GWh.
Table: India’s energy storage tender trends (2018–25):
Source: India Energy Storage Alliance
More than 30 tenders with 41.7 GWh of storage capacity were cancelled. Even so, the pipeline continues to move forward with 29 tenders now under construction and several awarded projects entering the build phase. Operational capacity remains modest, which shows that the sector still needs to convert a large tender pipeline into actual assets.
The scale of the pipeline signals a market that is maturing, learning from early setbacks and moving step by step towards a reliable and distributed storage base for India’s grid.
