One of the biggest producers of grey hydrogen in the world, Reliance Industries Limited, intends to switch to green hydrogen by 2025. To speed up cost reduction and commercialization of its Pressurized.

Reliance is one of the biggest users of agro-waste as a fuel to meet its captive energy demands, and it is actively working on bio-energy. It hopes to expand on this by using newer and developing technology as well as innovation. Reliance has opened Phase I of its Jamnagar Bio-Energy Technology (BET) Center.

Ambani announced that Reliance is in advanced discussions to partner with other leading electrolyzer technology.

He added that the company will establish 20 GW of solar energy generation capacity by 2025, which will be entirely consumed for captive needs of round-the-clock power and intermittent energy for green hydrogen.

On plans for battery manufacturing, he said RIL aims to start production of battery packs by 2023 and scale up to a fully integrated 5 GWh annual cell-to-pack manufacturing facility by 2024, and to 50 GWh annual capacity by 2027.

 Alkaline Electrolyzer technology, the business has teamed with Stiesdal. Additionally, the business is in advanced talks to establish a giga-scale electrolyzer manufacturing facility at Jamnagar in partnership with other top electrolyzer technology providers worldwide.

With the specific goal of delivering green hydrogen at the lowest possible cost, we will complement our partner’s technological innovation in stack manufacturing with our engineering expertise, operational excellence, long-standing experience in efficient seawater desalination, digital twin expertise, and indigenous balance of plant. Speaking at the 45th Annual General Meeting, Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), stated, “We plan to gradually begin the transition from Grey Hydrogen to Green Hydrogen by 2025, after proving our cost and performance targets (Post-IPO).

“By 2025, we’ll also have installed 20 GW of a solar energy producing capacity. This will be used totally to meet our captive needs for continuous power (RTC) and sporadic energy (for Green Hydrogen). We are prepared to invest twice as much to expand our manufacturing ecosystem once it has been demonstrated at scale “Ambani made a remark.

The need for captive energy across all of Reliance’s businesses “provides us with a large base-load demand to support our plans to set up giga-scale manufacturing and will accelerate our commitment to investing Rs. 75,000 crores towards establishing our fully integrated New Energymanufacturing ecosystem in Jamnagar,” Ambani continued.