The $0.7 billion project – developed, constructed and commissioned by AM Green Energy, a wholly owned ArcelorMittal subsidiary - is expected to reduce AM/NS India’s carbon emissions by 1.5 million tonnes per year, supporting AM/NS India’s target to reduce the carbon intensity of the steel it produces by 20% by 2030 (against a 2021 baseline).
The India renewables project has been developed as a hybrid project, integrating the 1GW of solar and wind capacity with a third-party hydro pumped storage solution (currently under testing and scheduled for commissioning by June 2025), ensuring the project will ultimately deliver at least 250MW of round-the-clock power - critical for continuous energy production. It will provide over 20% of the existing energy requirements at AM/NS India’s steel plant in Hazira, Gujarat.
Vast in scale, the solar site is spread over 2,400 acres – enough to hold more than 1,700 FIFA size football fields – and the wind site is spread over 700 acres. Now fully commissioned and running at nameplate capacity, c. 1.5 million solar panels and 91 wind turbines will generate 2.5 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of power annually, equivalent to powering nearly 10 million Indian households.