A round-up of the India storage headlines our desk tracked to 27 July 2026 — a quiet day for procurement, with just one small new call and a recycling policy read to add to a pipeline that is otherwise unchanged. For the running list of live opportunities see our tender tracker; if you are weighing a bid, our how-to-bid a BESS tender guide walks through the steps.
New today
The single new storage procurement was small and campus-scale. IIT Jammu invited expressions of interest for a 2.2 MW solar project paired with 8 MWh of battery storage — an early-stage, captive solar-plus-storage system rather than a grid-scale call:
- IIT Jammu Invites EOIs for 2.2 MW Solar Project with 8 MWh Battery Storage — Mercom India · read our brief
It is a reminder that storage demand is broadening past the utilities into institutional and commercial-and-industrial buyers who want firmed solar and outage backup on their own sites.
Policy read
On the supply side, pv magazine argued India’s battery recycling industry needs to move past semi-processing — “black mass” export — toward recovering finished cathode materials at home, a step that would tighten the domestic cell supply chain the storage build-out depends on:
- Beyond black mass: Why India’s battery recycling industry needs to move past semi-processing — pv magazine India
We unpack how recovered materials and end-of-life rules fit the India storage picture in our second-life batteries and recycling explainer.
Still live
No large battery tender opened today, so the grid-scale pipeline is unchanged. These calls remain at the bidding stage:
- GAIL Tenders 600 MW Solar Plus 550 MWh Battery Storage Project — Mercom India · read our brief
- POWERGRID Tenders 500 MW/1,000 MWh Battery Energy Storage Projects — Mercom India · read our brief
- Rajasthan Tenders 172 MW/688 MWh Battery Energy Storage Projects — Mercom India · read our brief
GAIL’s 550 MWh rides alongside 600 MW of solar as a firmed-renewable hybrid, POWERGRID’s 1,000 MWh over 500 MW is a 2-hour system and Rajasthan’s 688 MWh over 172 MW is a 4-hour one — the difference between peaking and long-duration duty, which we unpack in our 2-hour vs 4-hour BESS explainer. Tender terms and deadlines change by notification — always verify the current bid documents on the issuing utility’s portal before acting.
Wondering what a live tender or a captive solar-plus-storage system means for your own project? Estimate the numbers with our BESS savings calculator, or talk to our team for a project-specific read.