Cloud Energy StorageMany customers' batteries, dispatched as one store
Batteries on different sites, owned by different customers, are pooled in the cloud and offered to the grid as one store of energy, while each site keeps the reserve it bought the battery for.
Cloud energy storage treats batteries on many sites as one shared store. Each site's EMS keeps the local reserve and limits its owner set; only the capacity left over is pooled in the cloud and offered for peak support, so the battery earns from the grid without failing the site it was bought for.
Cloud energy storage, step by step
- 1
Each site sets its floor
The owner decides how much charge is always kept for backup and how hard the battery may be worked.
- 2
Sites report in
Ingro EMS on every site sends state of charge, health and availability to one cloud console.
- 3
The pool is offered
Spare capacity across sites is added up and offered for the next peak window as a single block.
- 4
Dispatch, then settle
Each site discharges its share within its own limits, and every kWh is metered back to its owner.
What the Ingro OS does
The same hardware-agnostic layer that runs Ingro EMS sits between the grid and every battery.
One view of the fleet
Every battery, any make, on one console with live state of charge and health.
Site first
Local reserves and warranty limits are hard limits; the pool only uses what is left.
Forecast the pool
Predicts how much each site can spare in the next peak window before it is offered.
Per-site settlement
Energy delivered is metered per site so each owner is paid for their share.
In India so far
- Today
Fleets already run from one console
Ingro Cloud EMS monitors and dispatches mixed-vendor BESS sites from one place, the layer cloud energy storage is built on.
What each side gets
C&I battery owners
Income from capacity the site does not need, without giving up backup.
DISCOMs
Peak support from storage that is already installed, without building a new plant.
BESS developers
A second revenue line that strengthens the project's case.
What we have posted on this
Announcements and analysis from Ingro's LinkedIn.
Apr 2026Grid-Scale BESS Has a Monitoring Problem
When a node goes offline, one alarm fires. It does not tell you whether the cause is the battery, the communication layer, or the network. Those failure modes look identical on the way in and demand completely different responses — so the worst event and the most trivial one sit in the same queue.
Mar 2026India Will Lead Global Energy Storage
India will lead global energy storage because of its challenges, not despite them. Ingro's OS for BESS — Cloud EMS, Battery AI, Digital Twin, and Smart Retrofit — closes the operator skill gap through software intelligence, with deployments across Tata Power-DDL, Delhi Metro, APAR Industries, and Jio-bp.
Nov 2025Behind-the-Meter BESS for Peak Support
Many factories don't need a sanctioned-load increase, they need peak support. If you're facing MD spikes, DG use during surges, or transformer stress, a behind-the-meter BESS can stabilise peaks, handle start-ups, and unlock capacity without changing sanctioned load.
Cloud energy storage: common questions
3 questions
No. The reserve you set is a hard floor. Only capacity above it is offered, and the EMS on site stops discharging the moment the floor is reached.
Cloud energy storage pools batteries only. A virtual power plant goes further and dispatches every flexible asset together: batteries, EVs, solar and flexible loads.
No. Ingro EMS is hardware-agnostic, so batteries from different vendors on different sites can sit in the same pool.
Still have a question?
Send us your site, hardware and tariff or tender, and an engineer will answer it.
Other ways the network uses storage
- Vehicle-to-grid (V2G)Parked EVs give power back at the evening peak
- Vehicle-to-home (V2H)The car in the driveway doubles as the home battery
- Battery swapping to gridSpare packs in swap stations support the grid at peak
- Virtual power plant (VPP)Batteries, EVs, solar and loads acting as one plant
- Open accessStored green power delivered when the factory needs it
Exploring Cloud energy storage?
DISCOMs, OEMs, fleets, charge-point and swap operators, and battery owners: tell us what you are planning and we will show you how it runs on the Ingro OS.