AmpereHour Energy has announced the inauguration of its battery energy storage systems manufacturing and integration facility in Chakan, Pune. The facility will focus on leveraging containerized battery DC-AC blocks for utility-scale and commercial and industrial applications.

The platform will combine hardware-agnostic architecture, proprietary energy management systems, subsystem engineering, and advanced safety design with AH-Suite, AmpereHour’s digital factory quality management and product testing platform.

The plant has a planned capacity of 5 GWh and is powered by AmpereHour’s ELINA Energy Management System.

The new facility’s inauguration comes more than a year after AmpereHour secured $5 million (₹415 million) in a Series A funding round led by Avaana Capital in March 2025.

Rahul Shelke, Co-founder and Managing Director at AmpereHour Energy, said, “Energy storage is becoming the backbone of the future grid, and India has an opportunity to lead not just in scale, but through technology-led innovation.”

Speaking at the recently concluded Mercom India Renewables Summit 2026, Ayush Misra, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at AmpereHour Energy, said India should avoid focusing solely on cells when building a domestic storage ecosystem. He said that assembling battery packs from imported cells can expose local manufacturers to full-system risk while leaving cell-level warranty enforcement difficult.

He said the first phase of domestic manufacturing incentives should focus on higher-value balance-of-system components inside the container, including battery management systems, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. The current auction structures have driven battery storage tariffs below sustainable levels.

India added 4.6 GWh of battery energy storage capacity in the first quarter of 2026, a 941% increase from 442.7 MWh added in Q4 2025, according to Mercom India Research’s Q1 2026 India’s Energy Storage Landscape Report. The country’s cumulative installed battery energy storage capacity crossed 5.9 GWh as of March 2026.

The Ministry of Finance recently widened the customs duty exemption applicable to machinery used in lithium-ion cell manufacturing. The revised list covers 85 categories of equipment spanning multiple stages of lithium-ion cell production.