Juniper Green Energy Limited has completed the commissioning of a 100 MWh merchant Battery Energy Storage System at Bikaner, Rajasthan – an important milestone in India’s rapidly changing energy storage landscape. Incepted through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Juniper Green Cosmic Private Limited, the installation is now operational after getting all regulatory clearances and post successful trial runs.
While 60 MWh out of this total commissioned in December 2025, the remaining 40 MWh achieved commissioning on January 23, 2026. Following this commissioning, Juniper Green Energy’s Bikaner facility has emerged as India’s first fully operational merchant BESS, opening new commercial avenues in grid-linked energy storage.
Entry into merchant energy storage:
The project has also received approval from the Northern Regional Load Despatch Centre to facilitate its full-scale commercial operation from January 23rd, 2026. By being a merchant asset itself, the BESS will be able to earn from arbitraging peak power prices, grid balancing service contracts, and ancillary market opportunities. Additionally, the BESS will be the largest battery energy storage system in the country by its capacity of 100 MWh.
Juniper Green Energy worked in partnership with Envision Energy to ensure the timely delivery of the storage systems by the latter. Envision specialises in global technology while Juniper Green specialises in the deployment of such technologies in the domestic arena.
Supporting grid stability and renewables integration:
Battery Energy Storage Systems are shaping up as a crucial element in the power transition of India, especially due to the increasing renewable energy penetration. The Bikaner BESS is designed to support grid stability, manage peak demand, improve transmission utilization, and further smoothen out the integration of solar power into the national grid.
As part of its long-term strategy, Juniper Green Energy plans to deploy battery storage across its solar assets connected to the inter-state transmission system. This approach aims at creating an integrated renewable-plus-storage platform that can solve the intermittency problems and create more flexible power dispatches.
The company has already commissioned 400 MWh additional BESS capacity at Fatehgarh, Rajasthan. It is expected to be commissioned by Q1 of 2026 and will significantly scale up Juniper Green Energy’s operational storage footprint.
Consequently, with merchant storage gathering policy and market momentum, Juniper Green Energy is very well-positioned for an early mover to capitalize on emerging opportunities, while contributing to the broader goals of clean energy and grid modernization within India.
