JSW Energy Limited on 11 November 2025 commissioned a green hydrogen manufacturing plant adjacent to the JSW Steel facility at Vijayanagar, Karnataka. The facility marks the company’s first commercial-scale green hydrogen project and is designed to supply low-carbon feedstock for direct reduced iron (DRI) production at the steel complex.
The plant will produce 3,800 tons per annum (TPA) of green hydrogen and 30,000 TPA of green oxygen for JSW Steel under a seven-year offtake agreement. The project was implemented under the Production Linked Incentive scheme (Tranche I) and is part of JSW Energy’s 6,800 TPA allocation under the Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT) programme administered by the Solar Energy Corporation of India.
“The commissioning of our first green hydrogen project marks a major milestone in JSW Energy’s transition towards becoming a net-zero company by 2050,” said Prashant Jain, Joint Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of JSW Energy. “This project will play a crucial role in decarbonising steel production, one of the hardest sectors to abate,” he said.
JSW Energy and JSW Steel have also signed a memorandum of understanding to scale supply in phases, targeting 85,000–90,000 TPA of green hydrogen and 720,000 TPA of green oxygen by 2030. “Our collaboration with JSW Steel demonstrates the synergies within the JSW Group to drive industrial decarbonisation and strengthen India’s green hydrogen ecosystem,” said Jain.
The hydrogen produced at the new facility will be delivered directly to JSW Steel’s DRI unit to partially replace natural gas in the reduction process, reducing the carbon intensity of steelmaking. The project aligns with India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission, which aims to achieve five million tonnes per annum of green hydrogen production capacity by 2030.
JSW Energy also outlined its broader generation and storage portfolio in the filing. The company reported a locked-in power generation capacity of 30.5 gigawatts (GW), comprising 13.3 GW operational, 12.5 GW under construction, 150 megawatts under acquisition hydro, and a 4.6 GW pipeline. It further stated that it has secured 29.4 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy storage capacity from pumped hydro and battery systems, with a target to reach 30 GW generation and 40 GWh storage by financial year 2030.
JSW Energy Limited, part of the JSW Group, operates across power generation, transmission, and energy storage segments, with assets spanning thermal, hydro, and renewable energy sources in multiple Indian states.
