For every developing country, building sustainable resources of power is a must. On similar lines, India is working round the clock to uplift the power sector. In the coming days, the nation is planning to set up a 14GWh (Gigawatt hours) battery storage system in Kutch.
The information was shared by the Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy, Raj Kumar Singh in the ‘Mint Energyscape conclave’. The plan can give a strategic push to India’s grid-scale battery storage programme and hence will be among one of the largest in the world.
According to the available data, the Khavda renewable energy park in Kutch will be the world’s largest and will finally generate around 30GW of clean energy and will be spread over 72,600 hectares. India’s power grid stability is largely dependent on large battery storage. As 1GWh (1,000-MWh) of battery capacity is sufficient to power 1 million homes for an hour and around 30,000 electric cars.
India has one of the largest unified grids in the world
In the national grid and in the Interstate grid, India has added around 120 thousand circuit kilometers, connecting the nation right up to Leh, Dras, Kargil into one grid. Today, India can transfer around 99 plus megawatts of power from one corner of the country to other. With such a capacity, India has one of the largest unified grids in the world.
India has connected around 26.3 million houses with electricity in the last 18 months which is among the biggest expansion of electricity in the nation. In recent times, the energy demand has been ever-growing and in the past five years, the CAGR of India has been around 6.2 percent.
India plans for 450GW by 2030
India has been working round the clock to establish renewable energy sources for power consumption. In a bid to combat climate change and encourage clean energy, India plans to achieve 175GW renewable energy capacity by 2022 and 450GW by 2030. Out of which the nation has already crossed 100GW with installed solar and wind capacity, with another 63GW under construction.
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