Industry Odisha Bureau, May 18: Despite having enhanced renewable energy (especially solar/wind power) usage, India still reportedly lacks in the long-durataion storage facilities for which the Government of India (GoI) is reportedly gearing up for implementing a scheme named ‘Long-Duration Energy Strorage (LDES)’.
Such a move is reportedly being initiated because the Indian grid system’s current capability is said to be limited to manage the renewable power system and supply it seamlessly for the use of consumers during the ‘non-solar’ and ‘non-wind’ periods.
Efforts are reportedly on by the Ministry of Power under the “India Battery Storage Vision 2047” to launch the ambitious ‘LDES’ scheme by the fiscal year 2028.
According to experts in the field, there is a difference between ‘LDES’ teachnology and that of ‘BESS’ (Battery Energy Sorage System). While BESS can store renewable power and supply electricity for maximum four hours, LDES can do it for over eight hours owing to the technologies used in it – like the ‘flow batteries’, ‘compressed air energy storage (CAES)’, ‘sensible heat storge’, and ‘pumped hudro storage’.
It is also being reported that the GoI is mulling to introduce pilot projects to have a test and trial of the proposed ‘LDES’ across various grid conditions and its commercial use.
Reports citing data of Central Electricity Authority (CEA) said that, “India has gained renewable enrgy capacity of 178.88 gigawatts (GW) during the past five years enhancing the country’s installed clean energy capacity to 51.5 per cent.”
