A northern-region call from the national transmission utility, tracked as part of our tender tracker.
POWERGRID battery energy storage, Haryana
Energy
530 MWh
State
Haryana
Stage
Tendered
POWERGRID keeps building a storage portfolio state by state — 530 MWh in Haryana follows its earlier standalone and West Bengal calls.
Mercom India ↗What it means
Because the headline gives energy but not power, the system’s discharge duration is unknown — and that single ratio decides whether it is a peaking asset or a long-duration shifting asset, as we explain in 2-hour vs 4-hour BESS explained. At 530 MWh it is mid-scale by current Indian standards: large enough for grid-side service, small enough to be delivered as a single site.
The buyer matters as much as the size. POWERGRID is a transmission company, and its steady run of storage procurement — after 3 GWh in West Bengal and its 500 MW / 1,000 MWh standalone call — points to batteries being bought as network infrastructure, the standalone BESS model rather than a generator add-on.
As of this briefing the tender is open at the bidding stage; the award will be updated here once declared.
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