Battery Energy Storage System: KSEB to ink MoU with solar energy corporation on April 10

The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) will ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) on Thursday (April 10) for establishing the State’s first Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project at Mylatty in Kasaragod.

The BESS will be set up on the 220-kV sub-station campus at Mylatty, the KSEB said on Wednesday. The BESS unit will be used to store cheap and surplus energy produced during the daytime, when demand is low, for use when the demand is high, especially the evening hours.

Earlier this year, the KSEB had decided to go ahead with plans to set up a 125 megawatt (MW)/500 megawatt hour (MWh) BESS at the Mylatty substation. In November 2024, Kerala had received the Union government’s nod for a viability gap funding of ₹135 crore for establishing a BESS project having 500 MWh capacity.

SECI executive director Atulya Kumar Naik and KSEB deputy chief engineer Rajan M.P. will sign the MoU in the presence of Electricity Minister K. Krishnankutty, Power Secretary K.R. Jyothilal, State Electricity Regulatory Commission chairperson T.K. Jose, KSEB Chairperson and Managing Director Biju Prabhakar and Agency for New and Renewable Energy Research and Technology (Anert) CEO Narendra Nath Veluri.