Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani, while addressing the oil-to-telecom conglomerate's 45th AGM on August 29, said the company aims to successfully develop its New Energy business by 'adhering to First Principles'.
Mukesh Amabani, who is pivoting RIL towards green energy, announced that the company expects the green power segment to emerge as a growth engine for the company and it is set to double new energy investment commitments.
The RIL chairman said a team comprising hundreds of scientists, engineers and experts is working on bringing its New Energy vision to life.
"We already have over 2,500 scientists, engineers, and other experts working fervently to realise our vision for New Energy, and we plan to tenfold it over the next few years," said Ambani.
In order to work together and innovate for the future, Ambani said the company is collaborating with the top academic institutions and start-ups in the world.
Ambani also noted that the group's large captive requirement across its businesses enables it to scale rapidly.
"In collaboration with global EPC players, we will repurpose our proven capabilities in project management and combine physical and digital technologies to deliver lowest-cost green energy," Ambani said.
"Our New Energy business model will be modular and replicable across the globe," he further added.
Speaking on the combined advantages, Ambani said it "will help India become a net exporter of energy. It will also strengthen indigenous R&D base and make India a reservoir of intellectual property".
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In a live-streamed address, the RIL chairman said that the conglomerate’s new energy business is now “far more ambitious, transformational and global in scope that anything Reliance has done before.”
The previously announced Dhirubhai Ambani Green Energy Giga Complex is coming up over a 5,000-acre facility in Jamnagar, with an aim to establish and enable at least 100GW of solar energy by 2030, Ambani said. The four giga-factories include an integrated solar photovoltaic module factory, an advanced energy storage battery factory for intermittent energy, an electrolyser factory for the production of green hydrogen, and a fuel cell factory for converting hydrogen into motive and stationary power.
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RIL’s 10GW solar PV cell and module factory at Jamnagar, based on REC technology, will commence production by 2024, to scale up to 20GW annual capacity in a phased manner by 2026, according to the chairman.
Reliance Industries aims to be net carbon zero by 2035. Reliance, which is one of the largest producers of Grey Hydrogen globally, aims to progressively transition from Grey Hydrogen to Green Hydrogen by 2025, after proving its cost and performance targets.
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