Soft Landings for Indian Renewable Integration through Balancing Technologies
This project is a sub grant to IRADe by The Asia Foundation for raising the pitch on the subject of storage technologies in India, and their necessity in enabling integration of further renewable energy generation in the Indian grid. Considering the large capacity of renewables ultimately to be integrated, it is essential that adequate balancing sources, including storage energy devices, be deployed in the grid to smoothen the variability of renewable generation like wind and solar power.
The first roundtable was on 27 March 2019 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, with experts from think tanks, working in the energy space, participating in the discussions. The roundtable had a presentation via video call from Australian National University about their pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project site atlas. Inputs received from this shall be taken forward for deliberations in the next year as part of the project. Various representatives from the Ministry of Power attended the roundtable.