The Karnataka government is making efforts to capitalise on its generation of renewable energy by boosting its storage capabilities to secure its growing requirement of power. A proposal to increase investments into creating more storage capacity is likely to be placed before the Basavaraj Bommai-led cabinet within the next few weeks, officials familiar with the matter told HT.
“The process (boosting storage capabilities) is a little long and we have to convince everybody. It’s not regularly that we go for such procurement. That’s why we need to study this ourselves and this process is on. We should be able to try and convince our cabinet to go forward and this should be the path,” Kumar Naik, the additional chief secretary of the energy department, told HT.
The statements come at a time when Karnataka was able to successfully tide over the coal crisis that several of its counterparts faced, leading to load shedding and long power outages.
