A fresh central-PSU storage tender, tracked as part of our tender tracker.
POWERGRID standalone battery storage
Power
500 MW
Energy
1,000 MWh
Duration
2 hr
Discharge signature — short-duration, runs 2h of 8h at rated power
A short-duration asset from a central PSU — the two-hour shape is sized for evening peak cover, not overnight energy shifting.
Mercom India ↗What it means
At 1,000 MWh over 500 MW, this is a two-hour system — short-duration storage built to cover evening demand peaks rather than shift bulk energy overnight. It sits alongside POWERGRID’s larger 3 GWh West Bengal tender, signalling the transmission utility’s steady build-out of storage procurement under India’s BESS policy.
As of this briefing the tender is open at the bidding stage — the assignee and deadlines will be updated here as POWERGRID publishes them.
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