A fresh price-discovery point for grid-scale battery capacity in Gujarat, tracked as part of our tender tracker.
GUVNL battery energy storage tender
Power
450 MW
Energy
900 MWh
Capacity charge
₹2.32 lakh/MW/mo
Discharge signature — short-duration, runs 2h of 8h at rated power
Nearly a gigawatt-hour of two-hour storage priced at ₹2.32 lakh/MW/month — one of the clearest current reads on what battery capacity costs a state utility.
pv magazine India ↗What it means
Nine hundred megawatt-hours against 450 MW of power is a two-hour battery — the peaking shape that dominates Indian state procurement. Two hours is enough to carry a discom through the sharpest part of the evening ramp; it is not enough to shift bulk midday solar across the night, which is the job of the four-hour-plus systems we compare in our 2-hour vs 4-hour duration guide.
The price is quoted as a capacity charge in ₹ per MW per month, not ₹/kWh. That is the standard commercial structure for standalone BESS procurement: the utility pays for the right to call on the battery and keeps the arbitrage value of the cycles it runs. It means this number cannot be compared directly with the blended ₹/kWh tariffs discovered in round-the-clock renewable auctions — those bundle generation and storage into one energy price.
Gujarat has been the most consistent state buyer of storage capacity, and each successive auction there sets the reference other discoms bid against. The mechanics of the state utility’s process are covered in our GUVNL BESS tender guide, and the wider state framework in our Gujarat BESS policy explainer.
A discovered tariff is not a signed contract — letters of award and PPAs follow, and will be updated here as they are published.
Benchmarking a storage bid against this number? Run your own case, or talk to our bid desk.