{"id":423670,"date":"2021-07-02T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T03:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423670"},"modified":"2021-07-02T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T03:59:10","slug":"rils-gigafactory-sized-ambition-for-hydrogen-could-be-a-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rils-gigafactory-sized-ambition-for-hydrogen-could-be-a-game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"RIL&#8217;s gigafactory-sized ambition for hydrogen could be a game changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asia\u2019s richest person, Mukesh Ambani, has a $10 billion plan to scale up zero-carbon hardware in India. Reliance Industries, the oil- and refining-heavy conglomerate that he controls, intends to develop four huge \u201cgiga factories\u201d to manufacture photovoltaic modules, batteries, fuel cells, and\u2014importantly\u2014electrolyzers to produce hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a big plan, but short of details. Still, it bridges two aspects of decarbonisation: technologies that exist today and are economical at scale, and those that need a major effort to get to that point.<\/p>\n<p>A factory capable of manufacturing 100 gigawatts of solar panels in nine years is impressive, certainly, but it\u2019s not out of the realm of today\u2019s possibilities. A number of companies already manufacture more than 10 gigawatts of modules a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia\u2019s richest person, Mukesh Ambani, has a $10 billion plan to scale up zero-carbon hardware in India. Reliance Industries, the oil- and refining-heavy conglomerate that he controls, intends to develop four huge \u201cgiga factories\u201d to manufacture photovoltaic modules, batteries, fuel cells, and\u2014importantly\u2014electrolyzers to produce hydrogen. It\u2019s a big plan, but short of details. Still, it bridges two aspects of decarbonisation: technologies that exist today and are economical at scale, and those that need a major effort to get to that point. A factory capable of manufacturing 100 gigawatts of solar panels in nine years is impressive, certainly, but it\u2019s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}