India’s JSW Energy launches green hydrogen production plant

India’s JSW Energy has commissioned its first and largest green hydrogen plant in India, marking an important step in the country’s transition to clean energy, Power Technology reports.

The plant will supply green hydrogen directly to JSW Steel’s direct reduced iron facility in Vijayanagar, Karnataka, enabling the latter to produce low-carbon steel.

Under a seven-year agreement, the plant will supply JSW Steel with 3,800 tons of green hydrogen and 30,000 tons of green oxygen annually.

The project is part of JSW Energy’s 6,800-tonne-per-year allocation under the Strategic Interventions for Transition to Green Hydrogen (SIGHT) program implemented by the Indian Solar Energy Corporation.

JSW Energy has also signed a memorandum of understanding with JSW Steel to gradually increase supplies to 85-90 thousand tons of green hydrogen and 720 thousand tons of green oxygen per year by 2030.

JSW Energy’s developments are in line with India’s green hydrogen plan, which envisages producing around 5 million tons per year by 2030.

It should be noted that JSW Steel, one of India’s leading steel producers, announced this summer that it would invest approximately $2 billion in a decarbonization program. The key areas for achieving this goal are the use of renewable energy, increasing the share of scrap in production, and introducing the latest technologies, in particular hydrogen-based steel production.