Power Minister R K Singh on Thursday asked senior government officials to focus on the storage of surplus energy in the country.
“R K Singh, Union Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy, chaired a virtual meeting today (Thursday) with senior officials from central government, central PSUs, renewable energy developers, PSP developers and battery manufacturers for discussion on the ‘Report on comprehensive Policy Framework for promotion of Energy Storage in the Power Sector’,” the power ministry said in a statement.
The minister emphasised that the objective should be to ensure that no energy is lost. “For that, we need to be in a position to store all the energy, which is going to be surplus at any point of time.”