Source: UN News: Thursday, 31 July 2025 00:01 am
India is carrying forward its steps in renewable energy production. Eastern region Chhattisgarh has built the largest solar plant in the country, which stores the energy generated during the day using a huge battery. This stored green energy can be used in homes and businesses after the sun sets. This initiative has started a happy change in people’s lives. This project, made with the support of the World Bank, is proving to be a guide to bring 500 GW renewable energy to the target of inserting 500 GW renewable energy into the national energy grid. In the heat of the hot summer, when the electricity went away, but suddenly the fans started running again, then the children were seen to be silently thanked the “magical compartment” with a pleasant surprise. Although those batteries were limited to only one room at that time, India has moved towards a multi -layered and broad energy storage system. A peaceful but revolutionary energy is changing in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh. Despite its historical dependence on coal, this region has now become the home of India’s first and largest solar power plant, adding a grid -tier battery energy storage system – Bess. For the first time in India, the solar energy generated from the sunlight during the day, the day -to -day solar energy is being stored in batteries. This solar plant with a 100 MW (MW) capacity and a 40 MW battery storage system, can collect solar energy for three hours. All these are giving a new shape to the production, storage and distribution of energy in India. This plant has been built on a 450 -acre barren land, which can ensure conservation of dense forests and fertile fields of the state. This project, made with the support of the World Bank, is proving to be a guide to convert India’s clean energy by 2030 to include 500 GW renewable energy in the national energy grid of India by 2030. There is an important and pioneer initiative in the direction of goals. It has provided financial assistance of $ 6.7 million from the World Bank and $ 2.2 million from Climate Investment Funds. The Office Corporation of India (SECI), the organization of the Government of India is conducting and implementing the project. © World Bank In 2017, Australia showed the world’s first, grid battery power plant in 2017 from local to national grid and showed a new direction at the global level. Taking inspiration from similar innovations, the solar power corporation (SECI) and the World Bank in India also took the initiative to implement the high technology of energy storage at the national level. This initiative is part of the comprehensive strategy under which India has set a target to include 500 GW non-Givash fuel based energy in the national grid by 2030. This plant set up in Chhattisgarh has emerged as the first major achievement of this international cooperation. Even if its capacity is limited compared to India’s long-term energy goals, it is a guideline project. The plant provides constant green energy to homes, schools, hospitals and business establishments even after sunset, and is helpful in reducing about 1.7 lakh tonnes of carbon emissions every year. © World Bank illuminated prophets batteries were sometimes a means of saving a room light only when electricity is cut, today they have the ability to brighten the whole country with clean and sustainable energy. Chhattisgarh has now become an inspirational model not only a state, but India’s clean energy in the direction of the future. It is not only of a plant, but the story of the change, through which India is giving a fresh shape to its energy future with the thinking of “a battery, a step”. © World Bank Detailed Edition of this article Here Published.
