A round-up of the India storage headlines our desk tracked to 3 August 2026. One new tender leads the day — and it comes from an unusual buyer, a coal PSU rather than a power utility. Elsewhere the market backdrop stayed strong, and the state procurement and factory stories from last week are still working their way through. For the running list of live opportunities see our tender tracker; for the wider framework, our India BESS policy overview sets the context.
Central/PSU tenders
The day’s headline is a large standalone storage call from a central public-sector buyer outside the power sector:
Seven hundred and fifty megawatt-hours is utility scale, and the buyer is a miner rather than a DISCOM — a sign that India’s big industrial PSUs are now procuring batteries for their own load, not just watching the grid-side tenders. The headline does not state a power rating, so the discharge duration is still unknown; that single number is what decides whether a system is peaking or long-duration.
Market backdrop
Capital availability for the wider clean-energy build continued to look healthy:
Funding for solar is not the same as funding for storage, but the two travel together in India’s tender pipeline, where most new calls are now firmed or hybrid rather than plain solar.
Still live — open for bidders
Last week’s state procurement, campus EOI and factory stories have not moved yet:
- Kerala Regulator Approves KSEB’s 200 MW Solar Plus 400 MWh Storage Procurement — Mercom India · read our brief
- IIT Jammu Invites EOIs for 2.2 MW Solar Project with 8 MWh Battery Storage — Mercom India · read our brief
- Mecpower Solutions to set up 5 GWh BESS factory in Gujarat — pv magazine India · read our brief
Tender terms and deadlines change by notification — always verify the current bid documents on the issuing organisation’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.