A regulatory milestone on a distribution-level battery, tracked alongside our tender coverage.
BSES Rajdhani 25 MWh BESS, Delhi
Energy
25 MWh
Offtaker
BSES Rajdhani
State
Delhi
A regulated tariff is what makes a discom-owned battery bankable — the cost enters the revenue requirement instead of sitting on the balance sheet.
Mercom India ↗What it means
Twenty-five megawatt-hours is small against the gigawatt-hour state tenders that dominate the headlines, and that is the point: this is a distribution-level battery, sized to a feeder or a substation rather than to a generation portfolio. Batteries at this scale earn their keep by deferring a network upgrade, holding voltage at the end of a loaded feeder, and covering the evening peak that a city distribution licensee has to serve regardless of what the wholesale market is doing.
The regulatory step matters more than the size. A distribution company cannot simply buy storage and pass the cost through; the commission has to accept it into the approved revenue requirement first. Once a state regulator has done that once, the precedent is available to the next discom filing, which is how storage moves from pilot to routine network asset. The broader regulatory picture sits in our India BESS policy overview, and the peak-coverage economics in our peak shaving notes.
Assessing storage against a network or demand-charge problem? Run it through our BESS savings calculator or talk to our team.