Bengaluru: JSW Energy Limited has commenced operations at its first green hydrogen manufacturing facility, marking a major milestone in India’s transition toward clean energy. The newly commissioned plant is the country’s largest green hydrogen facility and falls under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme, Tranche I, of the government’s National Green Hydrogen Mission.
The facility, which is next to the JSW Steel complex in Vijayanagar, Karnataka, will provide green hydrogen straight to the steelmaker’s Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) unit, allowing for the production of low-carbon steel and lowering the industry’s reliance on fossil fuels.
JSW Energy will supply JSW Steel with 30,000 TPA of green oxygen and 3,800 TPA of green hydrogen over the course of a seven-year offtake agreement. According to the company, the project falls within its 6,800 TPA allotment under the Solar Energy Corporation of India’s (SECI) Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT) program.
In keeping with India’s goal of producing 5 million tonnes of green hydrogen annually by the end of the decade, JSW Energy and JSW Steel have also inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to progressively increase production capacity to 85,000–90,000 TPA of green hydrogen and 720,000 TPA of green oxygen by 2030.
“We are proud to commission India’s first green hydrogen plant under the National Green Hydrogen Mission, implemented through the SIGHT programme by the Government of India,” said Sharad Mahendra, Joint Managing Director and CEO of JSW Energy adding that “the project is a key milestone in our country’s clean energy journey and reflects our unwavering commitment to support India’s transition toward a low-carbon economy and decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors such as steel”.
With a total locked-in generation capacity of 30.5 gigawatts (GW) across thermal and renewable projects, JSW Energy also holds 29.4 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy storage capacity.
The company aims to achieve 30 GW of generation capacity and 40 GWh of energy storage by FY 2030, and to become carbon neutral by 2050.
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