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Storage, batteries and electric mobility
Storing power and moving by electricity: battery storage and pumped storage, battery chemistries and manufacturing, electric vehicles and their charging, and the schemes that support them. It serves GS3 answers on energy and infrastructure.
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Battery storage
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Storage does the firming a weather driven grid needs, holding the midday surplus until the evening peak, but it still costs more than the coal or solar power it displaces. Public money is therefore going into both the batteries on the grid and the factories that would make their cells in India.
- Viability gap funding covers 13.8 GWh of battery storage, with a further 30 GWh under the Power System Development Fund.
- The production linked incentive scheme for Advanced Chemistry Cells targets 50 GWh of cell making capacity in India.