Chinese co Envision Group mulls India battery plant as storage demand rises

China’s Envision Group is considering building a battery making plant in India to take advantage of a push by authorities to upgrade the grid to handle more renewables.

Once the nascent market takes off, Envision, one of the main wind turbine manufacturers in India, hopes to enter the sector with a 5 gigawatt hours-a-year, $34 million unit, Suman Nag, the company’s global head for contracts, said in an interview. The project will procure cells from China and build racks and software infrastructure locally.