A round-up of the India storage headlines our desk tracked to 30 July 2026 — a supply-and-policy day rather than a big-tender one. Manufacturing led the wire, a southern DISCOM cleared a solar-plus-storage buy, and MNRE widened a rooftop scheme to cover batteries, while July’s grid-scale tenders stay open. 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.
The manufacturing base
The day’s biggest number was on the supply side — the cells and packs every tendered gigawatt-hour ultimately needs:
- Mecpower Solutions to set up 5 GWh BESS factory in Gujarat — pv magazine India · read our brief
A planned 5 GWh-per-year line adds to India’s Make-in-India localisation drive, joining AmpereHour Energy’s 5 GWh plant and the incentives we set out in our PLI for ACC battery manufacturing guide.
State procurement
A southern DISCOM cleared the regulatory gate for a solar-plus-storage buy:
- Kerala Regulator Approves KSEB’s 200 MW Solar Plus 400 MWh Storage Procurement — Mercom India · read our brief
KSEB’s 400 MWh rides alongside 200 MW of solar as a firmed-renewable hybrid — the same shape as GAIL’s larger call, and a signal that state utilities are folding storage into their renewable procurement.
Policy moves
Letting DISCOMs channel rooftop-solar (Surya Ghar) funds into storage widens the money available for distribution-level batteries — a small but useful nudge for the peak-shaving use case we cover in our DISCOM peak-shaving BESS tenders explainer. For the wider framework, see our India BESS policy overview.
Still live — open for bidders
The grid-scale battery calls from earlier in the month 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
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 firmed 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.