With 5 billion euros in subsidies, India is embarking on the battery race to accelerate its green transition
REPORT - The third polluter on the planet is constantly building electricity storage sites connected to its solar parks. One of them is located in Kilokri, in the southwest of New Delhi.
Getting to the Kilokri electricity storage site is an obstacle course. This is where the first center of its kind in India is located. Powered by photovoltaics, it opened in southwest New Delhi in April 2025, in the middle of a neighborhood that is as dense as it is dirty.
You have to make your way through a maze of narrow and muddy streets. Garbage piles up on the road. A poorly parked vehicle, and everything is blocked.
Motorists have easy relaxation around here. The concert of horns never ends. Nirmal Shaju remembers the efforts it took to bring the 43-ton containers that house the batteries.
“We had to transport them at night, remove all the badly parked cars, bury the dangling electrical wires,” says this former Deloitte executive who is now director at the Global Energy Alliance. This New York-based philanthropic organization was created in 2021 by the Rockefeller Foundation, Ikea and the Bezos Earth Fund.
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