Reliance Industries expects to commission its first train of module and cell manufacturing in the Jamnagar district of Gujarat within the current fiscal year. Solar panels manufactured in Jamnagar have obtained BIS certification.
The PV factory will be scaled to 20 GW by 2026 in a phased manner.
Reliance is developing Dhirubhai Ambani Green Energy Giga Manufacturing Complex spanning 5,000 acres at Jamnagar, Gujarat. The complex will house with giga factories for PV panels, fuel cell systems, green hydrogen, energy storage, and power electronics. The Complex will be among the largest such integrated renewable energy manufacturing facilities in the world.
Additionally, Reliance is pursuing wind power generation by developing a manufacturing ecosystem for cost-efficient wind power generation at giga scale.
Reliance plans to start commercial production of sodium ion cells at a megawatt level by 2025 and thereafter rapidly transition it to a giga scale. It has already set up a 50 MWh per year pilot line for manufacturing Li battery cells, through Lithium Werks. The line can be scaled up for commercial scale production. Reliance plans expansion of cell-to-pack manufacturing facility to 50 GWh annually by 2027.
On the green hydrogen front, Reliance has qualified for the government’s Performance Linked Incentives (PLIs) for electrolyser capacity of 300 MWe annually and green hydrogen production capacity of 90 ktpa. This is in addition to PLI awards for polysilicon-to-solar module production and advanced chemistry cells (ACC) received in the previous year.
Parallelly, Reliance has started work on RE development as it aims to establish and enable 100 GW renewable energy by 2030. It has signed its first power purchase agreement with Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co. Ltd for 128 MW for 25 years.
Reliance has also signed an MoU with the Government of Maharashtra for 100 ktpa green hydrogen production. It has also signed an MoU with Brookfield for onshore renewable power and decarbonisation equipment manufacturing in Australia.
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