The great Indian energy storage challenge

摘要

India currently has in excess of 800 million mobile phone subscribers with approximately eight million subscriber additions every month. More of the new connections are taking place in regions far away from the metros- in the heart of rural India, where availability of uninterrupted grid power is almost certainly not assured, at least for large portions of a day. As a country, India is one of the most power starved in the world, with estimates varying anywhere between 10-17% as the gap between the power demand and generation, particularly during peak hours.