India's Green Hydrogen Mission Has Awarded 3,000 MW of Electrolyser Capacity and 756,100 Tonnes a Year of Hydrogen Production Since 2023

On 11 August 2026 the Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy, Shripad Yesso Naik, told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission has awarded 3,000 MW a year of electrolyser manufacturing capacity to 15 companies and 756,100 tonnes a year of green hydrogen production capacity to 16 companies, ANI reported. An electrolyser is the machine that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity. India’s standard counts the hydrogen as green when that electricity comes from renewable sources and the process emits no more than 2 kg of carbon dioxide equivalent per kg of hydrogen, according to a PIB explainer.

The Union Cabinet approved the mission on 4 January 2023 with an initial outlay of Rs 19,744 crore. The Cabinet release lists its expected outcomes for 2030: at least 5 million tonnes of green hydrogen capacity a year, about 125 GW of new renewable capacity to power it, more than Rs 8 lakh crore of investment, over 6 lakh jobs, and nearly 50 million tonnes of annual emissions avoided.

Where the Rs 19,744 crore goes

The Cabinet release splits the outlay four ways: Rs 17,490 crore for a programme called SIGHT (Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition), Rs 1,466 crore for pilot projects, Rs 400 crore for research, and Rs 388 crore for other parts of the mission. SIGHT takes about 89 per cent of the money. It runs two incentive schemes, one for factories that make electrolysers and one for plants that make green hydrogen.

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), a government company, runs the tenders as the mission’s implementing agency, according to its own page. In the production tenders, bidders compete on the lowest average incentive they will accept, and under the second tranche no single company could win more than 90,000 tonnes a year, PIB said in July 2024.

The first tenders, from January 2024

PIB reported on 7 February 2024 that the first production tender went to 10 companies for 412,000 tonnes a year, and the first electrolyser tender to 8 companies for 1,500 MW a year. SECI’s results page lists the winners. Reliance, ACME and Greenko each took 90,000 tonnes in the first production tranche, and HHP Two took 75,000.

The second round followed. SECI’s page shows 450,000 tonnes a year awarded to nine companies, with letters of award dated 28 February and 1 March 2025. AM Green Ammonia, Green Infra, L&T Energy Green Tech and Waaree each took 90,000 tonnes. A second electrolyser tranche added another 1,500 MW, with effective dates of 26 September 2024, which brought the electrolyser total to 3,000 MW. PIB gives the incentive awarded for electrolyser making as Rs 4,440 crore.

The two production tranches add up to 862,000 tonnes a year, the figure PIB used from December 2025 through the minister’s statement of 17 June 2026.

Green ammonia at about Rs 50 a kilogram

Green ammonia is ammonia made from green hydrogen, and it goes to fertiliser plants; PIB says green hydrogen can replace imported fossil fuels in fertiliser production. SECI held 13 auctions between 29 July and 29 August 2025 for 724,000 tonnes a year for 13 fertiliser units. The lowest price was Rs 49.75 a kilogram, for 100,000 tonnes to IFFCO’s Paradeep plant, and the highest was Rs 64.74 for 20,000 tonnes to Indorama’s Haldia plant. A PIB review of 2025-26 gives the weighted average as Rs 53.27. SECI says these prices are well below international green ammonia benchmarks.

Winners also get a per-kilogram incentive for the first three years of operation: Rs 8.82, Rs 7.06 and Rs 5.30. In March 2026, PIB reports, purchase and supply agreements were exchanged for 670,000 tonnes a year, for 10 years, covering 11 fertiliser units. The ministry expects them to save about $2.5 billion in foreign exchange. The short-stemmed wheat of the Green Revolution responded to more fertiliser than traditional varieties did.

For refineries, the ministry reported awards of 30,000 tonnes a year of green hydrogen: 10,000 at Indian Oil’s Panipat refinery, 5,000 each at Bharat Petroleum’s Bina and Hindustan Petroleum’s Visakhapatnam refineries, and 10,000 at Numaligarh in Assam. PIB gives the discovered prices as Rs 397 a kilogram for Indian Oil and Rs 387 for the other two oil companies’ refineries, both including 18 per cent GST, and Rs 279 for Numaligarh. The International Energy Agency’s Global Hydrogen Review 2025 says tenders for refining and fertilisers led to final investment decisions for production plants in Europe and India.

SECI issued another green ammonia tender on 24 September 2026, for 54,000 tonnes a year to a fertiliser plant at Dhule in Maharashtra.

What is running, and where

PIB reported on 25 March 2026 that around 8,000 tonnes a year of green hydrogen capacity had been commissioned in India up to February 2026. The 8 April 2026 review says JSW commissioned 3,600 tonnes a year in November 2025. Deendayal Port at Kandla commissioned a 1 MW plant in July 2025 that PIB says can make about 140 tonnes a year, and V. O. Chidambaranar Port at Tuticorin commissioned a pilot in September 2025.

Pilots reach beyond the plants. The March 2025 release sanctioned 37 hydrogen buses and trucks with 9 refuelling stations across 10 routes. The August 2026 reply, as Business Standard reports it, counts 12 transport pilots with 70 vehicles, 16 stations and 21 routes. The ministry has also sanctioned Rs 84 crore for steel pilots, and has awarded a green methanol fuelling facility at Tuticorin port and a dual-fuel green methanol ship for the Shipping Corporation of India. Battery vehicles are the other route for road transport, and our piece on electric vehicle registrations has their numbers. Liquid hydrogen as rocket fuel is the older Indian use, covered in the story of ISRO’s cryogenic engine.

Hubs and clusters make up the rest. MNRE recognised Deendayal, V. O. Chidambaranar and Paradip ports as green hydrogen hubs on 10 October 2025, and has endorsed an NTPC proposal for a hub at Pudimadaka in Andhra Pradesh. Four Hydrogen Valley Innovation Clusters, at Jodhpur, Odisha, Pune and Kerala, were sanctioned with Rs 170 crore, according to the 8 April review. A Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme began in April 2025, and a certification portal followed on 17 June 2026, when the minister Pralhad Joshi said six states had notified dedicated green hydrogen policies. The review also counts 122 standards published or adopted and 3,955 people trained in 2025-26. The mission’s power comes from renewables, and our solar capacity piece covers that side.

What comes next

Awarded capacity is not yet built capacity. Rs 292 crore had been spent as of 6 August 2026, Business Standard reported, against the Rs 19,744 crore outlay that runs to 2029-30. The 25 March release lists the yearly figures: Rs 0.11 crore in 2023-24, Rs 46.26 crore in 2024-25 and Rs 203.75 crore in 2025-26 up to 19 March 2026. SECI describes the ammonia incentive as paid per kilogram supplied, so payments follow output.

The 8,000 tonnes commissioned is 0.16 per cent of the 5 million tonne goal, and the 756,100 tonnes awarded is about 15 per cent of it. Releases from December 2025 to June 2026 gave 862,000 tonnes to 18 companies, and the August reply gave 756,100 tonnes to 16; none of the reports says what changed. SECI’s tables give each award a target date, in a column headed SCD: 2 February 2027 for the first production tranche and 28 February 2028 for the second.

Two outside reads add detail. Sagari Gupta, a policy consultant, wrote in Business Today on 11 June 2026 that no revised interim target had been published and no penalty for late delivery disclosed. BCG’s report of 8 October 2026 found 166 relevant standards and codes, and 23 of 50 parts of the hydrogen chain with no usable Indian standard.

Bids on the Dhule green ammonia tender are due on 27 October 2026, according to Mercom.