Piacenza, Italy, May 14, 2026, Energy Dome has officially completed and dispatched the iconic “Dome” for its landmark project in Kudgi, India. Manufactured entirely in-house at the recently operational Piacenza manufacturing plant (Energy Dome Manufacturing), the final shipment is now en route to the Asian subcontinent, marking a critical step forward for the project with NTPC Limited, India’s largest power utility.
The “Dome” is a flexible-membrane gas holder that serves as the containment structure where carbon dioxide is stored at atmospheric pressure between charging and discharging phases. For the Kudgi project, it will serve a 20 MW / 160 MWh, 8-hour CO2 Battery located at NTPC’s Kudgi Super Thermal Power Plant in Karnataka, India.
Moving a complex, large-scale industrial asset from order to shipment at this speed demonstrates Energy Dome’s unique manufacturing and procurement blueprint, starting with rapid operational scaling: Energy Dome Manufacturing’s facility went fully operational in July 2025, and in less than a year, it was capable of engineering, fabricating, and completely building the first-ever full-scale Dome entirely in-house.
Furthermore, the work was delivered through a strategic manufacturing partnership with Ecomembrane S.p.A., blending their expertise with Energy Dome’s process and engineering ownership. This paves the way for a highly repeatable model that pairs a standardized design with local industrial partners worldwide, which in turn allows production to be overseen at each step of the process, significantly shortens supply chains, and actively contributes to local economies.
Maintaining rigorous quality control was the key to achieving this success in such a short time: every single phase of the process – including engineering, procurement, quality assurance, project management, and complex international logistics – was coordinated entirely in-house by the Energy Dome team, laying the groundwork for a new integrated approach that will allow industrial products to move from order to shipment at an infrastructure pace.