Strategies for Enabling Utility Scale Energy Storage in Indian Cities
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Project Summary
The project aims to undertake an assessment/study to identify opportunities, needs and enabling strategies for coordinated action between DISCOMs and city level authorities to promote utility scale energy storage in two Indian cities. The study will help highlight linkages between urban planning and energy/power planning and generate awareness on the potential of coordinated efforts to achieve large scale deployment of RE and EV enabled through BESS.
Objectives
Key objectives of the project are:
• To enable urban local authorities and DISCOMs to identify strategies and policy interventions for the cities to leverage urban planning linkages to promote demand for energy storage.
• To make the DISCOMs and city governments aware of potential drivers for BESS at the urban scale and the opportunities and challenges associated with it.
• To identify specific opportunities and institutional frameworks for increased coordination and coherence between the urban authorities and energy sector actors and develop strategies addressing the challenges involved.
• To identify applicable business models for BESS deployment at the city scale for both BTM and FTM battery storage systems in selected cities based on global use cases.
• To identify potential changes in regulations to address regulatory barriers and enable joint action by DISCOMs and city government.
