Adani Green Energy Plans Massive Battery Storage Push, Eyes 15,000 GWh Annual Addition

Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL), part of the Adani Group, has announced plans to add between 10,000 and 15,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of battery energy storage capacity every year. The announcement was made by AGEL's Executive Director Sagar Adani at the Resilient Futures Summit, organised by Economist Enterprise in New Delhi.

The company is also set to cross 3 GWh of installed battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity in the coming days, which Sagar Adani described as one of the largest installed capacities anywhere in the world.

What's Planned For This Year

Before the longer-term target kicks in, AGEL has a more immediate goal. The company plans to invest around ₹15,000 crore to commission over 10 GWh of battery storage capacity in the current financial year alone. This is over and above the roughly 3 GWh it expects to have installed shortly, following the addition of 1.4 GWh during FY26.

The batteries are being developed alongside AGEL's renewable energy projects at Khavda in Gujarat, where the company is building what it calls the world's largest renewable energy park.

Why Battery Storage Matters

Sagar Adani explained the rationale behind the storage push in simple terms. When solar generation is at its peak during the day, the grid often does not need the power. Instead of feeding that power into the grid when it is not needed, the energy gets stored in batteries and released later, typically during the evening when solar generation fades but demand picks up.

Adani was direct about where things are headed. Battery storage, he said, is not a choice India gets to make, it comes with the territory as the country adds more and more renewable capacity. Without storage, the grid simply cannot handle the variability.

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The Bigger Picture

India's energy mix is shifting fast, and AGEL's storage push reflects that reality. More solar and wind on the grid means more moments when supply and demand fall out of sync. Dispatchable power, which is energy you can store now and use later, is what bridges that gap.

AGEL is building that bridge at scale. Its Khavda renewable energy park in Gujarat is already one of the most ambitious clean energy projects in the world, and the battery storage buildout sits right alongside it. The 15,000 GWh annual target is a bold number, but it lines up with the kind of growth the Indian energy market is heading toward.

Sagar Adani did not put a date on when that target would be hit. What he did make clear is that the company is not waiting around.

Sources:

Economic Times

PTI