{"id":1013677,"date":"2026-06-11T10:47:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013677"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:36:12","slug":"indias-hidden-battery-fleet-can-keep-the-lights-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/11\/indias-hidden-battery-fleet-can-keep-the-lights-on\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s hidden battery fleet can keep the lights on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the crucial factors keeping India\u2019s lights on when the temperature at dusk soars above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) rarely gets discussed. And yet they\u2019re everywhere in the world\u2019s third-biggest power market. <\/p>\n<p>Inverter batteries \u2014 low-voltage lead-acid systems, capable of charging up from a wall socket and powering a few lamps, some fans and perhaps a television for a few hours when the power drops \u2014 are a product of decades of unstable grid power. They\u2019re a quiet, clean replacement to the diesel generators that were ubiquitous in earlier decades. Now, more powerful lithium-ion units are promising yet another revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the crucial factors keeping India\u2019s lights on when the temperature at dusk soars above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) rarely gets discussed. And yet they\u2019re everywhere in the world\u2019s third-biggest power market. Inverter batteries \u2014 low-voltage lead-acid systems, capable of charging up from a wall socket and powering a few lamps, some fans and perhaps a television for a few hours when the power drops \u2014 are a product of decades of unstable grid power. They\u2019re a quiet, clean replacement to the diesel generators that were ubiquitous in earlier decades. Now, more powerful lithium-ion units are promising yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013700,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013677\/revisions\/1013700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}