Nothing new reached our feeds today — no fresh tender, award or PPA on the India storage beat. Rather than rehash headlines we have already covered, this edition does the more useful thing on a quiet day: it re-states what is still open, and what a bidder should be doing about it this week. The running list sits on our tender tracker.
Tenders still open
Two public storage procurements remain the ones worth a bid team’s time, and they sit at opposite ends of the duty spectrum.
- POWERGRID Invites Bids for 530 MWh Battery Storage Project in Haryana — Mercom India · read our brief
- SECI Seeks 100 MWh Standalone Storage for Short-Term Use — Mercom India · read our brief
- NLC India Selects Consultant for 600 MW Solar Plus Storage Project — Mercom India
POWERGRID’s Haryana package is transmission-owner procurement — the storage is bought to hold the grid, not to shift a generator’s output — while SECI’s 100 MWh is a short-term standalone requirement, which usually means a system that has to be delivered and earning quickly rather than one optimised over a twenty-year tariff. NLC India appointing a consultant is the stage before a tender exists at all, and it is the right moment for suppliers to get specifications in front of the people writing them. If you are assembling documents for any of these, our checklist for bidding a BESS tender in India covers what disqualifies bids before the technical evaluation even starts.
Projects and manufacturing in motion
Nothing new here today, but two items from the past week are still working through their next milestone.
- Bondada Engineering sets up subsidiary for 225 MW/450 MWh BESS project in Andhra Pradesh — pv magazine India · read our brief
- Fujiyama plans additional 1 GWh lithium battery manufacturing capacity at Ratlam plant — pv magazine India · read our brief
Read together they describe the two halves of the same market: demand arriving as ring-fenced project companies, and supply arriving as domestic gigawatt-hour lines. The gap between the two is still the bit that decides delivery dates — which is why cell sourcing, and not just system price, belongs in every technical evaluation, as our guide to SECI standalone storage tenders sets out.
Policy and market signals
- Kerala Drafts Tariff Framework for Energy Storage, Generation and Transmission — Mercom India
- Telangana Solar Market Slowly Shifts Toward Solar-Plus-Storage, Quality, Reliability — Mercom India
- Higher Energy Yield Will Drive Tracker, Robotic Cleaning Use in Solar Projects — Mercom India
Kerala’s draft is the item with the longest tail: once a state commission writes storage into its tariff regulations, batteries stop being a project-by-project exception and become a cost head a discom can recover — the shift we track for each state in our Kerala BESS policy note. Telangana’s move toward solar-plus-storage is the same pattern arriving through buyer preference rather than regulation, and today’s only genuinely new item, on trackers and robotic cleaning, is a reminder that yield economics on the generation side quietly change the case for storing what that generation produces.
Tender terms and deadlines change by notification — always verify the current bid documents on the issuing organisation’s portal before acting.
Weighing a bid on one of the tenders above, or sizing storage for your own site? Run the numbers with our BESS savings calculator, or talk to our team for a project-specific read.