Infrastructure and engineering firm Bondada Group has already won a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) 400 MWh project by Tamil Nadu Green Energy Corporation Ltd. (TNGECL). The project will install stand-alone BESS facilities at a grid scale of 400 MWh collectively at strategic points within the state, i.e. at Vellalaviduthi and Thennampatty. It will help in increased grid stability, renewable energy integration and peak power management in the state.
The project shall be undertaken based on the build-own-operate (BOO) scheme, where Bondada Group was awarded the project as a result of a competitive tendering exercise that was performed by TNGECL.
Within the framework of the project, Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO) will be acquiring the battery energy storage services of Bondada Group on the basis of a 12-year battery energy storage purchase contract. It will facilitate two complete charge and discharge cycles in a day to balance the intermittency of renewable power and provide a reliable round-the-clock power supply to the grid of the state, a statement by the Bondada group said.
The project complements the India National Framework of Energy Storage System, 2023, and the state of Tamil Nadu, a target to reach 50 percent renewable energy by the year 2030. By 2027 the system is intended to connect to the state grid as part of the Indian goal of 500 GW of non-fossil fuel generating capacity.
Bondada Group has commissioned solar capacity of 800 MW and has a solar and renewable EPC in progress of 2.3 GW. The project is planned to be Bondada Energy Services largest instant energy storage project to date and would be following its earlier success of locking a 100 MWH BESS project with Telangana Power Generation Corporation Limited (TGGENCO).
