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Fireside chat: New Demand, New Requirements: How India’s Changing Load Profile is Reshaping Storage
Date & Time
October 23, 2026 3:55 PM - 4:15 PM
TypeFireside Chat
AI data centres, industrial decarbonisation and rapid residential growth are creating load profiles that India’s grid was never designed to serve. Is the storage pipeline being built today sized and configured for the demand India will have within the five-year deployment roadmap?
Hyperscalers with renewable energy commitments need clean power around the clock but cannot tolerate the outages and frequency events that characterise high-renewable-penetration states. Behind-the-meter storage paired with renewables is becoming a procurement requirement. Is the Indian market producing the 8-12 hour duration assets that data centre operators actually need?
States are increasingly writing firm, round-the-clock power delivery into procurement specifications as industrial and commercial load grows. Are developers committing to obligations their assets can reliably meet, or is a gap opening up between what contracts promise and what projects deliver?
