GAIL has inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Accelera by Cummins, a clean energy technology company, to collaborate on green energy and energy transition technologies in India.
The MOU, signed during India Energy Week 2025, will pave the way for joint efforts in hydrogen production, blending, transportation and storage using Accelera’s knowledge in new energy sectors, alongside GAIL’s well-established natural gas infrastructure.
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The collaboration will explore opportunities for the use of hydrogen as both a mono fuel and in dual feed combinations with liquified natural gas/compressed natural gas (LNG/CNG) in sectors such as transport, power and steel.
GAIL is progressing its clean energy initiatives and has also brought forward its scope 1 and scope 2 net-zero targets from 2040 to 2035.
In April 2024, GAIL commissioned a 10MW green hydrogen unit at its Vijaipur plant in Guna District, Madhya Pradesh, utilising an electrolyser manufactured by Accelera by Cummins.
The company has also explored hydrogen blending in the Indore gas distribution network run by its joint venture (JV) company Avantika, starting with a 2% blend of CNG or piped natural gas (PNG) and later increasing to 5% in the PNG network.
Furthermore, GAIL has established a five tonnes per day compressed biogas (CBG) plant in Ranchi, with plans to set up 26 more across India within three to four years.
GAIL, in a JV with Leafiniti Bioenergy, is also developing ten CBG plants, while another JV plans to set up a 500,000 litres per day, grain-based ethanol plant in Rajasthan.
Additionally, GAIL has partnered with Coal India to produce synthetic natural gas in West Bengal.
Last month, GAIL reported an increase in revenue and profits for the nine months ending 31 December 2024.
The company reported revenue of Rs1.01trn ($11.65bn) from operations, up from Rs983.04bn in the same period of fiscal year 2023–24 (FY23–24). Its revenue for the third quarter of FY24-25 rose 6% quarter-on-quarter, from Rs329.31bn to Rs349.58bn.
