AES and Mitsubishi Corporation are to build India’s first utility-scale energy storage system, a 10MW solution that will serve the electric grid operated by Tata Power.
The companies will own the ‘Advancion’ storage solution, which is being supplied by Fluence. Once completed later this year, the system will enable better peak load management, add system flexibility and enhance reliability for more than seven million customers in the Delhi region, the firms said.
Fluence, an energy storage technology and services company owned by Siemens, brings more than a decade of grid-scale battery-based energy storage experience to the project, with nearly 500MW deployed or awarded across 15 countries.
Tata Power-DDL CEO and managing director Praveer Sinha (pictured) said: “This first of its kind system will help to create a business case for the deployment of storage in India, to address challenges in the areas of peak load management, system flexibility, frequency regulation and reliability on the network.”
“This project will provide a platform to demonstrate energy storage as a critical distribution asset and help to balance distributed energy resources, including rooftop solar,” Sinha said.
India’s renewable energy sector is experiencing remarkable growth and the country recently expanded its renewable energy target to 175GW of solar and wind generation by 2022. Deploying energy storage will help network operators mitigate solar and wind resources’ variability and reduce congestion on the region’s transmission system, delivering more affordable, clean energy and enabling new sources of revenue from frequency regulation and other grid services.
