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PM's economic advisory panel calls for boosting grid-scale battery storage capacity
India's economic advisory council calls for massive grid-scale battery deployment to solve the country's core grid challenge: not generation capacity, but managing the timing and flexibility of power supply as solar expands. New regulations including the draft Electricity Amendment Bill 2025 are being introduced to enable storage integration.
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The Wire takeaway
If you make batteries, power electronics, or thermal management systems at grid scale, India just signalled a decade-long procurement cycle: the regulatory doors are opening now, and the grid can't function without you. Call your Indian partners this week—this is no longer a policy paper, it's a bottleneck.
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Topics: Climate Tech · battery-storage · grid-flexibility · renewable-integration · regulatory-framework · energy-infrastructure