Reliance Targets 120 GWh Of LFP Cells And BESS As Jamnagar Gigafactory Enters Commissioning

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani told the company's 49th AGM that the first phase of its 40 GWh battery-cell-and-BESS gigafactory at the Dhirubhai Ambani Green Energy Giga Complex in Jamnagar is on track for commissioning this year, with all equipment already delivered to site — and that the company will scale the plant to 120 GWh per year in subsequent phases.

India's largest LFP push begins commissioning

Once fully commissioned, the Jamnagar factory is expected to make Reliance one of the world's largest manufacturers of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, a chemistry that has come to dominate stationary storage and mid-range EV markets. In the near term, the company is prioritising containerised BESS assembly for its own Kutch renewables buildout before ramping full cell manufacturing.

An integrated solar-to-cells value chain

The Jamnagar complex — sprawling across 5,000 acres — houses gigafactories for solar PV, electrolysers, fuel cells, LFP cells, BESS integration and power electronics. Reliance has already commissioned solar cell and module lines and produced nearly 1 GW of heterojunction (HJT) modules with rated efficiencies up to 25.6%, and the group is the first Indian company to secure ALMM certification for HJT cells. "We are building towards 20 GW per annum of fully integrated capacity — from polysilicon to ingots, wafers, cells, modules, and glass," Ambani said.

A 55,000-acre renewables hub in Kutch

Reliance is also building a renewable-energy hub across 5,50,000 acres of the arid Kutch region designed for round-the-clock gigawatt-scale power. Ambani said peak installation cadence will hit 55 MWp of solar modules and 150 MWh of battery containers per day, and that the hub — with a dedicated Kutch-to-Jamnagar transmission corridor already under EPC — will eventually generate more than 40 billion units of green electricity per year, roughly 3% of India's annual electricity demand.

Global context

Reliance's timing dovetails with a global sprint to onshore battery manufacturing outside China. Rivals ranging from Peak Energy in Sacramento to Eni Storage Systems in Brindisi announced multi-GWh LFP plants in the last week alone, and Reliance's 120 GWh long-term target would rank it among the top five LFP producers globally.

Reporting based on Reliance's 49th AGM disclosures and coverage from pv magazine India and ess-news.com.