India’s battery storage sector is growing on two tracks that are moving at very different speeds, and the gap between them has just been measured in hard numbers.
On one track, demand is racing ahead. Competitive tenders for battery energy storage systems (BESS) are expected to call for around 260 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of capacity this year alone. On the other hand, India’s ability to build the cells that go inside those batteries is barely moving. The country currently has just 2 GWh of commissioned cell manufacturing capacity, industry assessments suggest — meaning less than 1% of this year’s tendered demand could theoretically be met from domestic cells, even if every commissioned line ran at full output.
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