New chemistry cell battery tech set to diversify, disrupt sectors: From electricity storage to EVs

With at least three energy storage-linked projects of scale being planned in India, new advanced chemistry cell battery technologies that could potentially enable battery storage ecosystems to diversify away from the established Lithium-ion formula and scale up the viability threshold offers an array of potential options to policymakers. The suitability of some of these frontier battery technologies are likely to be evaluated based on the end-use application of the battery storage projects in the works — electricity storage for the grid or their use in electric vehicles (EVs).

While policy makers in the Niti Aayog and the Power Ministry maintain that the established Lithium-ion ecosystem is likely to continue to be the mainstay for the projects that are on the verge of being rolled out,