Become a global manufacturing hub for wind, solar and green hydrogen

Union Cabinet approved the new unified GOBARdhan National Circular Bioenergy Scheme with a ₹23,731 crore outlay for FY2026-27–FY2035-36. It provides assured CBG offtake, stable pricing, capital assistance, pipeline connectivity and financing support and targets a nearly ten-fold increase in domestic CBG production. More than 200 CBG plants had already been commissioned.

MNRE reported solar-module manufacturing capacity of about 172 GW, up from ~74 GW a year earlier. Wind-turbine manufacturing capacity increased from 18 GW to 24 GW, while eight of twelve solar-PV PLI manufacturers had begun production somewhere in their value chains.

The Petroleum Minister formally launched GOBARdhan, along with its handbook and unified portal. The scheme targets domestic CBG production of around 5 MMSCMD, nearly ten times the prevailing level, through the new integrated support framework.

Solar manufacturing expanded further: 144 GW/year of module capacity was listed under ALMM, around 24 GW of solar-cell capacity was listed, and PLI beneficiaries had installed roughly 11 GW of module and 5 GW of cell manufacturing capacity during 2025.

Under the National Green Hydrogen Mission, 3,000 MW/year of electrolyser-manufacturing capacity had been awarded to 15 companies, alongside 8.62 lakh tonnes/year of green-hydrogen production capacity awarded to 18 companies.

MNRE amended its wind-turbine listing framework to strengthen domestic manufacturing requirements. At that point India's annual wind-turbine manufacturing capacity had crossed 20 GW.

80 CBG plants had been commissioned and 72 were under construction under SATAT. The government had also operationalised financial support for CBG pipeline connectivity, while mandatory CBG blending in CNG/PNG was scheduled to begin from FY2025-26.

MNRE invited proposals to establish Centres of Excellence for Green Hydrogen R&D, with ₹100 crore allocated for the CoE component. The proposed centres are intended to support research across hydrogen production, storage and utilisation and bring together industry, academia and government.