Parliament Question: Green Energy Projects

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.6323 ANSWERED ON 02.04.2026 GREEN ENERGY PROJECTS

6323. SHRI P V MIDHUN REDDY:

Will the Minister of POWER

be pleased to state: the details of carbon capture and utilization projects that are operational, under development or proposed in the country along with their current status, State/UT-wise? A N S W E R THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF POWER (SHRI SHRIPAD NAIK) Several Carbon Capture and utilization projects are currently operational, under development, or proposed, across different States/UTs. The details are given at Annexure.

************ANNEXURE ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 6323 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 02.04.2026 ************* State/UT-wise Details of Carbon Capture Utilization Projects (Operational, Under Construction, Proposed) A. Operational Carbon Capture & Utilisation Projects State / UT Project Implementing Status:

S. Agency Commissioned/ No. Operational

1. Madhya 3,000 Tonnes Per NTPC Ltd. Commissioned Pradesh Annum (TPA) Flue Gas CO₂-to-Methanol Plant at NTPC Vindhyachal, Vindhyanagar, Singrauli

2. Tamil Nadu 60,000 TPA CO₂ M/s Tuticorin Operational Capture Facility, Alkali Tuticorin Chemicals &

(Thoothukudi) Fertilizers Ltd.

3. Maharashtra 500 Tonnes Per Day M/s JSW Steel Operational

(TPD) CO₂ Capture from Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) Unit at SalavB. Carbon Capture & Utilisation Projects Under Construction / Under Execution Sl. No. State / UT Project Implementing Status Agency

1. Andhra 3,000 TPA Flue Gas NTPC Ltd. Under Pradesh CO₂-to-Ethanol (Gen-4) Execution Project at Pudimadaka

2. Andhra 1,800 TPA Flue Gas NTPC Ltd Under Pradesh CO₂-to-Sustainable Execution Aviation Fuel (SAF) project at Pudimadaka

3. Andhra 24 Kilo Tonne Per Annum Hindustan Under Pradesh (KTPA CCU) Unit at HPCL Petroleum Execution - Visakh Refinery, Corporation Mechanically Malkapuram, Limited Completed Visakhapatnam (HPCL)

4. Telangana Carbonated Fly-Ash Brick NTPC Ltd Under (C-brick) Plant (capacity 2 Execution Lakh C-Brick/Day) at NTPC Ramagundam

5. Maharashtra Development and Knowledge Under

demonstration of an Partner: IIT Commissioning indigenously developed Delhi integrated technology of Industry CO2 capture from the Partner: recently demonstrated 1 Thermax Ltd.

TPD coal-to-methanol pilot plant and its conversion to methanol at Pune, Maharashtra

6. Telangana To develop an indigenous Knowledge Under

catalytic process for coal Partner: Commissioning derived CO2 CSIR-IICT hydrogenation to Industry Dimethyl-ether (DME) at Partner: moderate temperature BHEL Ltd and pressures at HyderabadC. Proposed Carbon Capture& Utilisation Projects S. State / UT Project Implementing No. Agency

1. Assam Carbonated Water Injection (CWI) is Oil India Ltd (OIL) planned in one of OIL’s reservoirs in Dikom field located in its operational areas in Assam.

2. Assam Feasibility Study of CO2 EOR Including Oil India Ltd (OIL) CO2 Transportation & Injection in Makum-North Hapjan Field of Assam

3. Assam Revitalization of Kathaloni LK+TH Sand Oil India Ltd (OIL) (KLN001 Block) Reservoir through Modelling Study along with Identification of Potential for Amenable EOR Scheme in Kathaloni Oilfield

4. Assam CO + CO₂ Recovery (270 TPD + 190 TPD) Numaligarh Refinery at Numaligarh Limited (NRL)

5. Andhra Vacuum Swing Adsorption Process for Knowledge Pradesh Carbon dioxide Capture from Cement Partner- Kiln Gas and its Utilization within the CSIR-Indian Institute Construction Material Value Chain. of Petroleum (CSIR-IIP), Dehradun, IIT- Tirupati and IISc, Bengaluru.

Industry Partner- JSW Cement Ltd.

6. Gujarat 1,500 TPD CO₂-Enhanced Oil Recovery Indian Oil

(EOR) at Gujarat refinery, Vadodara Corporation Ltd

(IOCL) + Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC Ltd.)

7. Gujarat Initiative on the feasibility of CCUS in Oil and Natural Gas form of CO2-EOR in the mature water Corporation Limited flooded reservoirs of Gandhar in (ONGC Ltd.) Gujarat.

8. Madhya 15 TPD CO₂-to-Calcium Carbonate Plant Bharat Petroleum Pradesh (Bina Refinery) at Bina Corporation Limited

(BPCL)

9. Haryana 440 TPD CO₂-to-Acetic Acid (Panipat Indian Oil Refinery) at Panipat Corporation Ltd

(IOCL)

10. Odisha 132 TPD CO₂-to-Polycarbonate at Indian Oil Paradip Refinery Corporation Ltd

(IOCL)11. Odisha 348 TPD of CO2 to Acetic Acid at Indian Oil Paradip Refinery Corporation Ltd

(IOCL)

12. Odisha Water-based catalyst‑driven CO2 Knowledge Partner: capture process, at a scale of 2 TPD, Indian Institute of designed for integration within a live Technology Bombay cement plant, enabling conversion of (IIT-B) captured CO2 into calcium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate and formic acid. Industry Partner:

Dalmia Cement

(Bharat) Limited

13. Odisha Carbon-negative using solvent-based Knowledge Partner: carbon capture technology at a scale of IIT Kanpur 1 TPD and utilizing captured CO2 for Industry Partner: mineralisation into concrete using JSW Cement ICCM (Integrated Carbon Capture and Mineralization) technology.

14. Rajasthan Oxygen-based Calcination to capture Knowledge Partner:

2 TPD (Tonnes Per Day) of CO2 and its National Council for utilization (0.4 TPD) in lightweight Cement and Building concrete products and olefins. Material, Ballabhgarh

(NCCBM), IIT Roorkee

Industry Partner:

JK Cement Ltd.

15. Rajasthan Feasibility Study of CO2 Transportation Oil India Ltd (OIL) and Storage in Saline Aquifers/ Reservoirs of Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan

16. Tamil Nadu Innovative Interventions in Cement Knowledge Industry for Lowering Carbon Impact. Partner- New kiln burning technology based on IIT Madras & oxygen-enriched burning, capture using BITS Goa adsorption/absorption, and Industry Partner- mineralization of captured CO2 (2 TPD) Ultratech Cement Ltd using concrete blocks, waste concrete fines and concrete plant sludge.

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