Let us find our the green hydrogen projects in India. In recent years, countries across the world are focusing on green energy. Energy companies have been investing mostly in solar, wind, energy storage, and electric vehicles. Of late, Green hydrogen – hydrogen produced from renewable energy – emerged as one of the best sources of green energy that seems key in the path to a net zero carbon society.
Hydrogen as a fuel has been used in many industries for a few years now mostly generated by using coal or fossil fuels. Though hydrogen has been replacing fossil fuels in industrial processes such as refining, iron, steel, chemicals, and transport, still it has been producing carbon. Green hydrogen can be the best source of energy to replace grey carbon or fossil fuels that are being used in various industries such as transportation, manufacturing, etc.
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In India, the government has already kick-started its green hydrogen journey in 2023 with the national launch of its National Hydrogen Mission with an investment plan of ~$2.39 billion. The country wants to transform itself into a global hub for green hydrogen production and export.
Many major companies in India have started making the switch to Green hydrogen production. Major conglomerates such as Reliance Industries, GAIL, NTPC, Adani Green, Indian oil corporations, L&T, etc have jumped onto this bandwagon and promised a huge investment in green hydrogen projects in India.
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Let us see what are Green hydrogen projects in India are under construction and which company planning for green hydrogen production. The purpose of this article is to track the green hydrogen footprint of each company in India.
Find Indian hydrogen partners
Explore these trade directories and industry bodies:
- Hydrogen Association of India (hai.org.in)
- India H2 Alliance of Industry Body
- Indian Association for Hydrogen Energy and Advanced Materials (IAHEAM)
- India Green Hydrogen Organisation (India GH2)
- India Green Hydrogen Council (IGHC)
- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GREEN HYDROGEN
- WORLD HYDROGEN 2024 SUMMIT & EXHIBITION
Green hydrogen projects in India
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)
- The company is planning to invest ₹750 bn over the next three years in renewable energy.
- Out of this, ₹600 bn will be invested in a 5,000-acre, green energy integrated complex called Dhirubhai Ambani Green Energy Giga Complex in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
- The complex will be commissioned in the second half of 2024
- The company is also expected to build a 2.5-gigawatt (GW) electrolyzer manufacturing unit.
GAIL
- State-owned GAIL is planning to build India’s largest green hydrogen plant in the next 12 – 14 months.
- The company has finalised 2-3 sites for the unit including one at Vijaipur in Madhya Pradesh.
- The plant planned will have a capacity of 10 MW.
NTPC
- NTPC Green Energy Ltd (NGEL) and V O Chidambaranar Port Authority (VOCPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a green hydrogen hub at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu.
- The company plans to build a renewable energy capacity of 60 GW by 2032 and is working on a pipeline of over 20 GW.
- NTPC Green Energy Ltd (NGEL) will develop a green hydrogen to green ammonia project with a capacity of up to one million tonnes per annum (mtpa) in Maharashtra, with an investment of INR 80,000 crore
- The company is planning to invest $2.5 billion in green hydrogen projects in India.
- The company is currently producing green hydrogen in two plants – around 140 KW in Ujjain, MP, in 2022, and a second plant of around 3 MW RE capacity in the final commissioning stage in Hisar, Haryana.
- The company also has two more plants – 15 MW capacity in Phase-I, under construction in Maharashtra.
- The company is planning to build a 2GW green hydrogen and ammonia project in Kerala, India, for Rs 264 billion ($3.18 billion).
- The plant will be built in three phases with a combined production capacity of 1.1 million tonnes of ammonia (NH3) or 220,000 tonnes of H2 annually.
- The plant could start producing its first volumes of ammonia as early as 2027.
- The company is planning to invest Rs 40,000 crore to set up a green hydrogen and green ammonia ecosystem in Gujarat.
- Welspun is also among the winning bidders under the Solar Energy Corporation of India’s (SECI) SIGHT.
- It has won incentives for 20,000 MTPA of green hydrogen production.
- Essar Group is setting up a 1-gigawatt green hydrogen project (1,000 megawatts) in Gujarat’s Jamnagar.
- The company signed an MoU with the Gujarat government to develop the project with an estimated investment of Rs 30,000 crore.
- The company is planning to invest INR 4,000 crore (around $481 million) into setting up renewable energy projects, battery energy storage systems, and facilities for the production of green hydrogen and its derivatives in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
- The company is targeting to produce 4 MMT of Green Ammonia by 2030.
- Avaada Group has started working on a manufacturing unit with a capacity of 0.5 MMT on the East Coast of the country.
- The company is also looking forward to setting up the Green Hydrogen/Ammonia manufacturing unit with a capacity of around 1 MMT in the state of Gujarat.
- The company has established a benchmark in Green Hydrogen production, by successfully implementing India’s one of the first pilot projects, in Rishikesh, India.
- This pilot project will produce 50 kg of Green Hydrogen daily sourcing input energy from a 1MW rooftop solar plant.
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