RIL to start solar power generation from Kutch project in FY27 1st half

The project is part of the oil-to-telecom conglomerate’s broader push towards clean energy and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2035

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

Reliance Industries will commence solar power generation in the first half of the next financial year from its mega renewable energy project in Kutch, Gujarat, a site spread over an area nearly three times the size of Singapore.

‘The project is part of the oil-to-telecom conglomerate’s broader push towards clean energy and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2035.

In an investor presentation post announcement of its second quarter earnings, Reliance said project development across the 5,50,000-acre site in Kutch is progressing well, with engineering and feasibility studies completed, and the site is currently in various stages of land development.

“Expected to start commissioning solar generation during the first half of the next year for captive requirements plus green fuels production,’ it said.

Four years ago, Reliance Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani announced a $10 billion investment in a ‘new energy’ business. That was seen as a notable change of tide, given the conglomerate’s mega-scale petroleum refining operation that Ambani spearheaded back in the 1990s.