The year 2025 marked a pivotal period for India’s energy storage landscape, transitioning from conceptual discussions to a concrete regulatory and implementation framework. Driven by the imperative to integrate a massive pipeline of renewable energy and ensure grid stability, the government and its agencies rolled out a series of guidelines, mandates, and support mechanisms specifically…
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has invited bids under two separate tenders totalling 2,000 MW. One tender seeks 1,000 MW of surplus power from renewable energy projects. The other seeks developers for 1,000 MW of grid-scale pumped-storage capacity. The first tender is through a Request for Selection (RfS). It covers the supply of…
Juniper Green Energy Limited has started operations of 60 MWh of its 100 MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project in Bikaner, Rajasthan, marking the company’s entry into merchant energy storage operations. The BESS project has been developed through Juniper Green Energy’s subsidiary, Juniper Green Cosmic Private Limited. This is the company’s first operational merchant…
On 22 December 2025, Matrix Renewables said it had signed a full Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) agreement with Tesla for a standalone battery energy storage system. The project has a capacity of 500 MW with a two hour duration, equivalent to 1 GWh, and is located in Eccles, Scotland. This is Matrix Renewables’ first…
ACME Solar Holdings Limited has announced two developments aligned with its long-term growth strategy. On 17 December 2025, ACME Solar confirmed the appointment of Ayalur S Kumar as Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer. Kumar has over 30 years of experience in procurement, supply chain strategy, and operations across renewable energy, electric vehicle infrastructure, and…
Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) has signed a Statement of Intent with GEAPP ServiceCo (India) Private Limited to explore cooperation in areas supporting India’s clean energy transition. Separately, SECI has also entered into a memorandum of understanding with Indraprastha Power Generation Company Limited (IPGCL) and Pragati Power Corporation Limited (PPCL) to collaborate in…
SJVN Limited has issued a tender to develop 2 GW of energy storage capacity through pumped storage projects across India. The projects will be set up on a build-own-operate model and will provide eight hours of discharge, including up to five hours of continuous discharge. The tender states that bidders will be responsible for the…
Exicom has signed a memorandum of understanding with EONEX Energy, a DVN Energy Group-backed company, to deploy megawatt-hour-scale lithium-ion battery energy storage systems across Southern India. The partnership focuses on commercial, industrial and renewable integrated applications. The two companies plan to jointly develop and install systems intended to support peak load management. The systems will…
Vikram Solar Limited has named Arun Mittal as the CEO of its wholly owned subsidiary VSL Powerhive Private Limited. The appointment strengthens the company’s entry into the energy storage market at a time when its solar manufacturing capacity has reached 9.5 GW. VSL Powerhive has been set up to focus on battery energy storage systems…
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has released draft amendments to formally include Integrated Energy Storage Systems in the tariff structure for thermal power stations and interstate transmission systems. The proposals, issued on December 1, 2025, aim to create a clear method for calculating supplementary tariffs for storage units, using defined cost, operational, and energy…