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India plans to make state-owned power utilities add energy storage. The aim is to waste less of the clean power the country generates, as storage capacity lags behind.
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India will soon require state-owned utilities to add energy storage capacity, a senior official said on Thursday. The step is meant to cut the waste of generated power while the clean energy boom continues.
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Pankaj Agarwal, secretary of the Indian Power Ministry, spoke at the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit. He said federal authorities will set the requirement for state utilities.
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Agarwal added that India is working to launch more clean energy tenders for energy storage. A tender is a public call for companies to bid on a project.
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