Power producers red flag Andhra Pradesh’s energy storage project
Mumbai: The renewable energy industry has raised concerns about how an Andhra Pradesh power distribution company is setting up India’s largest energy storage project. In a letter to the Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Ltd (APTransco), the Independent Power Producers Association of India (IPPAI) has asked why APTransco is setting up the project without completing a detailed project report or encouraging a transparent bidding mechanism among players. Mint has seen a copy of the letter.
APTransco is looking to build India’s largest energy shifting project of 400-MW capacity with eight hours of daily discharge (that is, 3,200 megawatt hour or MWHr capacity), the country’s first large-scale grid-connected energy storage project. An energy shifting solution is a storage solution that will shift energy from one time to another for peak load management during the day.
