A central-agency solar-plus-storage award to a domestic manufacturer, tracked as part of our tender tracker.
Waaree Energies 700 MW SECI solar-plus-storage project
Solar capacity
700 MW
Configuration
Solar + storage
Offtaker
SECI
Stage
Awarded
A 700 MW central award with storage in the base scope — the largest single solar-plus-storage win reported this week.
pv magazine India ↗What it means
The headline number is solar capacity, not storage capacity. Because neither the battery’s power rating nor its energy is disclosed, no discharge duration can be calculated — a 700 MW solar block might be firmed by anything from a two-hour peaking battery to a four-hour system, and the difference changes the cell count, the thermal design and the cost per MWh dramatically.
What the award does confirm is that SECI is now buying firmed solar as the default product rather than as a premium variant, the same procurement logic behind its assured-peak and FDRE rounds and the state-level frameworks mapped in our India BESS policy overview. For a manufacturer-EPC, that puts battery sizing on the critical path of the bid itself: the storage assumption sets the tariff, and the tariff wins or loses the project.
The parallel $37 million Arizona factory upgrade is a separate, overseas manufacturing item and carries no Indian storage capacity of its own — but it fits the wider pattern of Indian cell and module makers building capacity on both sides of the trade barrier, which we cover in our note on ACC battery manufacturing under the PLI scheme.
Bidding a solar-plus-storage project, or sizing the battery behind one? Size the economics first, or talk to our team.