Delectrik Wins 3 MWh Battery Energy Storage Project From NTPC

Gurugram-based Delectrik Systems, a flow battery OEM, won a tender from NTPC for its NETRA division (NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance) to deploy a 3 MWh Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRFB) based Battery Energy Storage System (BESS).

NETRA is deploying this VRFB as long-duration energy storage (LDES) to augment the storage capacity of its microgrid to achieve full one-day autonomy; this would pave the way to make NETRA self-sufficient for its power requirement.

The installation will be based on Delectrik’s recently launched large-scale product architecture which is suitable for large Commercial, Industrial, and Utility scale applications. The system will be deployed in the first half of 2025 at NETRA Campus in Greater Noida, India. Delectrik won the tender in collaboration with Rays Power Infra an EPC company with over 1.5 GWp of solar projects commissioned in India and South East (SE) Asia.

As per the National Electricity Plan notification (NEP 2023), India’s domestic stationary BESS requirement will be 411 GWh by 2031-32. The current BESS deployment in India is less than a GWh, showing the enormous market potential for stationary BESS.

Vishal Mittal Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Delectrik stated, “MWh scale tender and award is a big vote of confidence from NTPC in Delectrik’s Flow Battery based BESS and their potential to meet the future grid scale requirement in India. This project in many ways will kickstart the large-scale Flow Battery deployments in India.”  Delectrik supplies Flow Batteries to 9 countries across 5 continents (North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa) ranging from 10 kWh to multi MWh capacity

“In addition to the low product cost the capital investment required to manufacture GWh scale Flow Batteries is 10-20x lower compared to lithium-ion battery (Li-ion) batteries. This is key as India looks to ramp up its BESS manufacturing capability to >100 GWh. For large installations, the per acre capacity can be increased to 200MWh. This represents <1% of the area required for PV installation of equivalent capacity. The low-cost, long-life, and sustainability of Flow Batteries makes them an ideal asset to be paired with renewables such as PV/Wind and achieve Round-The-Clock clean affordable energy and help the country reach its Net Zero emissions target,” he added.