India is advancing efforts to boost renewable energy use even as the world’s third-largest crude oil importer is leading global oil demand growth.
Indian Oil Corporation, the country’s top refiner, plans to replace fossil fuel-made hydrogen with green hydrogen – made from electrolysis – at one of its refineries.
Indian Oil has recently finalized the cost for its green hydrogen plant in the Panipat Refinery & Petrochemical Complex, which will be India’s biggest renewable hydrogen production facility when it is commissioned, which is expected to take place in late 2027.
The state-owned refining giant has picked Larsen & Toubro to build and operate the plant with a capacity to produce 10,000 tons of hydrogen per year.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) isn’t new to building hydrogen electrolyzers—the company commissioned in March its first India-made electrolyzer at the Green Hydrogen Plant at A M Naik Heavy Engineering Complex…
