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Last Updated: 16 Oct 2025

Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme on ‘National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) Battery Storage’

The PLI Scheme – National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) Battery Storage) is a Central Sector Scheme to boost India’s manufacturing capacity of advanced battery technologies by promoting 50 GWh of ACC production with mandatory domestic value addition, ensuring globally competitive and sustainable battery manufacturing.

Quick facts 

  • Type: Central Sector Scheme
  • Purpose: For enhancing India's Manufacturing Capabilities of ACC Battery storage
  • Localization: A mandatory domestic value addition of at least 25% at 'Mother Unit Level' and 60% at project level.
  • Monitoring: By the Empowered Group of Secretaries (EGoS) chaired by Cabinet 

Objective

  • To achieve greater domestic value addition, while at the same time ensure that the levelized cost of battery manufacturing in India is globally competitive.

Salient features

  • About Advance Chemistry Cells: ACCs are the new generation advance energy storage technologies.
    • It can store electric energy either as electrochemical or as chemical energy and convert it back to electric energy as and when required.
  • Target: For achieving manufacturing capacity of 50 Giga Watt Hour (GWh) of ACC and an additional cumulative capacity of 5 GWh for niche ACC Technologies.
  • Incentive: The total annual cash subsidy to be disbursed by the Government will be capped at 20GWh per beneficiary firm.
    • The beneficiary firm will have to commit to set up minimum of 5 GWh of ACCs manufacturing facility. 
  • Technology agnostic in nature:  The beneficiary firm shall be free to choose suitable advanced technology and the corresponding plant & machinery, raw material, and other intermediate goods.
  • Exclusion: Incentive will not be offered to the conventional battery pack segment of the industry as it is already happening in India.
  • Impact on benefits under other scheme: The incentive claimed under this scheme will in no way debar/restrict for any incentive to be claimed under FAME-II or PLI scheme for Automobile and Auto components.
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