India’s JSW Energy Ltd is setting up the country’s largest 25-megawatt green hydrogen project in Vijayanagar in the southern state of Karnataka for its group company JSW Steel Ltd to manufacture green steel at its mill at the same location, a company executive said in a media statement on Tuesday, June 11.
“The work on the 3,800 mt per annum pilot project has started and is likely to be commissioned by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025,” JSW Energy joint managing director Sharad Mahendra said in the media statement.
The company plans to be future-ready as a major supplier of green energy and has signed a memorandum of understanding with JSW Steel to supply an additional 90,000 mt per annum (tpa) of green hydrogen and 720,000 tpa of oxygen by 2030.
Considering that the green hydrogen plant will be located at the same site as JSW Steel’s mill at Vijayanagar and supplied through pipelines, there would be savings in storage costs.