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India's Q1 battery storage installs jump to 4.6 GWh on viability gap funding

Battery installations in India reached 4.6 GWh over the first quarter of 2026, up 939% from the 442.7 MWh added in the prior three months, according to pv magazine. The surge lifted cumulative installed battery capacity to 5.9 GWh by the end of March.

Raj Prabhu, chief executive of Mercom Capital Group, tied the jump to the expanded viability gap funding program and to storage mandates now attached to new solar projects.

Standalone systems dominate the installed fleet at 73% of the total, with round-the-clock renewable projects that pair solar, wind and storage accounting for another 15%.

The forward pipeline ran far larger. Developers held 69 GWh of energy storage projects across various stages at the close of the quarter, of which 41 GWh were standalone batteries. The remainder split between solar-plus-wind-with-storage at 11 GWh, solar-plus-storage at 9 GWh, and 1 GWh of round-the-clock renewable schemes. Gujarat led all states with 10 GWh of standalone battery projects in development.

Long-duration capacity leaned on pumped hydro, where 57.2 GW sat under various stages of development. Of 7.2 GW installed, 5.7 GW was running as of the end of March.

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