On the outskirts of New Delhi, India, in the busy neighborhood of Kilokari, where modest homes and businesses jostle for space with a school, a health center, and a police station, an unassuming new installation turns few heads.
In appearance, it’s nothing more than a big grey box, about the size of a shipping container, and surrounded by cables and the paraphernalia of electrical infrastructure. But the prosaic appearance belies a striking story.
This is a battery energy storage system, and it guarantees the flow of reliable, clean, local electricity to 100,000 homes and businesses previously dependent on unreliable energy from fossil fuels.