Subsidiary receives Letter of Award for 50 MW/200 MWh battery storage project in West Bengal
Wholly owned subsidiary NLC India Renewables has received a Letter of Award from WBSEDCL to set up 50 MW/200 MWh standalone Battery Energy Storage Systems at Arambag, Hooghly, West Bengal.
By ScoutQuest · · 2 min read
- Project Size
- 50 MW/200 MWh standalone Battery Energy Storage Systems
- Project Location
- Arambag, Hooghly, West Bengal
- Award Received
- Letter of Award from WBSEDCL
What the company informed
- NLC India Renewables Limited (NIRL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the company.
- NIRL participated in a tender floated by the Department of Power, Government of West Bengal, on behalf of West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (WBSEDCL).
- The tender was for setting up Standalone Battery Energy Storage Systems at multiple locations in West Bengal under Tariff-Based Competitive Bidding.
- NIRL emerged as a successful bidder for setting up 50 MW/200 MWh Standalone Battery Energy Storage Systems at Arambag, Hooghly, West Bengal.
- NIRL has received a Letter of Award from WBSEDCL for the development of this project.
Reading it simply
A Letter of Award is the formal communication that names the selected bidder for a project. Here it comes from WBSEDCL, the State Electricity Distribution Company for West Bengal, and the project is to be developed by NIRL, which is fully owned by NLC India. So the win sits with the group's renewables arm.
The terms, in plain words
- MW (megawatt) is a measure of power — the rate at which a battery system can charge or discharge.
- MWh (megawatt hour) is a measure of energy — the amount of electricity the system can store.
- A standalone battery storage system is built as a storage asset in its own right, rather than being attached to a particular solar or wind plant.
- Under Tariff-Based Competitive Bidding, developers compete on the price they quote, and the project is awarded to the selected bidder.
How to place it
The update is a project-award intimation, and its checkable facts are the asset being set up, its size at 50 MW/200 MWh, and its location at Arambag in Hooghly district, West Bengal, awarded to a wholly owned subsidiary. News of this kind is generally read as an addition to the group's energy storage activity.
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More numbers
- Battery energy storage capacity awarded50 MW
- Energy storage volume of the awarded system200 MWh
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