Adani Group to add 5 Gw green energy a year for next decade, says chairman

In a letter to Adani Enterprises investors, Gautam Adani said group is in sync with India's goal of becoming world's top renewable players, group itself aims to be world's largest solar power producer

Promising to make significant investments in sustainable and renewable energy, the Adani group said it has managed to beat its own target of 25 Gigawatts power generation four years ahead of schedule, due to the acquisition of Softbank-owned SB Energy this year.

In a letter to Adani Enterprises shareholders, Group chairman Gautam Adani said the group is aligning with India's goal of becoming world's biggest renewable player and has set the goal to be the world’s largest solar power producer for itself. "I also decided that a significant part of our Group’s future investments must be focused on sustainable and renewable energy," he said.

On January 22 this year, the group announced its vision to become the world’s largest solar power company by 2025 and thereafter the world’s largest renewable power company by 2030.

"I also stated (In Davos, 2020) that we would “build 25 Gigawatts by 2025 and also become the world’s biggest solar player. Our existing portfolio of renewable power at that time (January 2020) stood at just 2.5 Gw. We moved fast since January 2020 and my focus has been on building an organisation that can add an unmatched 5 Gw of generation capacity every year over the next decade and foster a cleaner energy future and so far, we are very much on target," he said.

In the second quarter of 2020, the group won the world’s largest solar tender when SECI (Solar Energy Corporation of India) awarded the group 8 Gw through a competitive bidding process. In Q3 of 2020, Mercom reported that the group has  become the world’s largest solar power developer. "We rose from No. 6 position in 2019 to No.1 in 2020-–in just nine months," Adani said.

"Simultaneously, we formed game-changing partnerships in energy to start establishing the base for global partnerships. Inducting Total Energies as a 20 per cent partner in the renewables business sealed a strategic alliance that covers investments in LNG terminals and renewable assets across India, besides the gas utility business. The partnership within the renewables space in India will be a key contributor to Total Energies’ objective of transforming into a clean energy leader," Adani said.

Since January 2020, the value of the group's renewables business has risen over 600 times, yielding one of the best returns across all stock markets. "In May 2021, the group acquired Softbank’s and Bharti’s 5 GW portfolio of renewable assets, allowing us to leapfrog and get to our target of 25 GW a full four years ahead of the schedule," he said. "This is what templatisation means to us and it gives us the confidence to expand swiftly across several adjacent sectors," he said.