New Delhi: Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal in a post on X (https://x.com/AnilAgarwal_Ved/status/2090310490589471201?s=20) has highlighted the Group’s leadership in renewable energy among its peers, with Vedanta now having around 2 GW of installed and contracted renewable energy capacity across its operations.
Speaking on Akshay Urja Diwas, he said, “At Vedanta, we are so proud of the huge initiative taken to run our aluminium, zinc and other plants on more and more renewable energy. With 2 GW capacity, we are leaders in our peer group in India, up to 5 times more than others. Globally, also, we are among top 2 or 3 of our peers. People said it was not possible to run such energy-intensive, 24×7 processes with renewable but along with Vedanta’s sister company, Serentica, we have shown it’s very much possible with innovation. Our new green products in aluminium and zinc have a good demand globally. And our shareholders are extremely happy with the path we have decided to follow. I am confident that our Bharat will become the first country in the world to grow rich while going green at the same time.”
The scale of Vedanta’s renewable energy portfolio puts it ahead of its Indian metals and mining peers on publicly disclosed renewable capacity. At around 2 GW, Vedanta’s portfolio is nearly five times Hindalco’s 470 MW, around twice JSW Steel’s ~1 GW and substantially higher than NALCO’s ~198 MW and SAIL’s 24.6 MW of commissioned capacity. The Group’s renewable energy footprint also compares strongly with global peers, placing Vedanta among the top two-three disclosed renewable/decarbonisation capacity portfolios across comparable global mining and metals companies. Rio Tinto which is roughly four times the size of Vedanta has around 2.8 GW of RE capacity, while Fortescue Metals, slightly bigger in size to Vedanta has lower capacity at approximately 1.4 GW.
The achievement is particularly significant given the nature of Vedanta’s businesses. Aluminium, zinc and other metal production are among the most energy-intensive industrial processes and require continuous, 24×7 power. Yet Vedanta, together with its sister company Serentica, has been developing renewable energy solutions capable of supporting such energy-demanding operations.
The Group’s transition is increasingly visible in its actual renewable energy consumption. Vedanta’s renewable energy utilisation rose 52% year-on-year to 4 billion units in FY2025-26, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of around 3 crore Indian households. Over the past five years, Vedanta has invested more than US$1 billion in net-zero transition initiatives, covering renewable energy, lower-carbon fuels, energy efficiency and technology-led interventions.
These efforts, alongside other decarbonisation measures, have helped Vedanta avoid approximately 36 million tonnes of CO₂e emissions since FY2021, while greenhouse gas emissions intensity across its metals and mining production has declined by approximately 14% from the FY2020-21 baseline while production has ramped up steadily over the same period. The Group is targeting 2.5 GW of round-the-clock renewable energy capacity by 2030, signalling an ambition to make cleaner power an increasingly integral part of its industrial operations.
The transition is also extending into the products Vedanta supplies to global markets. Vedanta Aluminium’s Restora and Restora Ultra, and Hindustan Zinc’s EcoZen, are low-carbon ‘green’ metals designed to address growing customer demand for metals with a lower carbon footprint. In FY2025-26, customers using EcoZen avoided approximately 8,268 tonnes of CO₂e emissions, demonstrating how such products can help decarbonise value chains beyond the company’s own operations.
Vedanta’s renewable energy push also comes at a time when India’s demand for the materials underpinning the clean-energy economy is accelerating. Aluminium, copper, zinc, silver and other metals are critical for renewable power generation, transmission networks, electric mobility, energy storage and electrification. This gives Vedanta a dual role in the energy transition: supplying the materials needed to build the green economy while simultaneously working to reduce the carbon intensity of producing them.
Vedanta’s growing renewable energy portfolio suggests that for energy-intensive Indian industry, the transition to cleaner power is moving from an aspirational sustainability goal to a large-scale industrial and competitive opportunity.