Battery storage and pumped hydro projects in India, in this edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage.
Two subsidiaries of independent power producer (IPP) ACME Solar have this month announced the commissioning of utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Rajasthan, northwestern India.
On 4 May, in an announcement to the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), parent company ACME Solar Holdings said ACME Sun Power had commissioned 33.3MW/160.5MWh of BESS capacity in the village of Badi Sid, in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur District.
Commercial operation date of the project was 6 May 2026. It brings ACME Sun Power’s commissioned capacity to date to 200MW/963MWh, ACME Solar said.
The announcement was followed a week later by notification to the exchanges that another subsidiary, ACME Surya Power, had commissioned an additional 35.7MW/160.5MWh at an existing project in Jaimalsar, Bikaner district of the same state,
