NEW DELHI: Power discom Tata Power Delhi Distribution (Tata Power-DDL) has won a prestigious award for India’s first ‘mega inverter’, a grid-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) at northwest Delhi’s Rohini.
Tata Power-DDL has been recognised in the category of ‘Top 25 Innovative Company’ by CII Industrial Innovation Awards 2020 for the development of South Asia’s largest grid-scale BESS, in collaboration with AES and Mitsubishi. TOI was the first to report about the one of its kind ‘mega inverter’.
“BESS is India’s first grid-scale battery-based energy storage system and is playing an instrumental role in modernising the city’s power system and improving grid efficiency. In simpler terms, the 10 MWh battery storage set up in Rohini is like inverters in houses, only a massive one, interconnected to a network of 200 MW capacity,” a spokesperson of the discom said. The storage system can feed around 2,500 ‘special customers’ who provide essential services like hospitals, Delhi Jal Board, Delhi Metro, government offices, schools etc. “The stored power can also be used during any breakdown or situations like grid failure,” he said.
“Our path-breaking innovation like BESS can manage peak power demand load during summer,” Ganesh Srinivasan, CEO of Tata Power-DDL, said.
