Industrial Gases to be Added to PAT
India has no nationally recognised SEC baseline for industrial-gas production. Without it, regulators cannot distinguish efficient plants from inefficient ones or set credible PAT targets. CRID is building the Specific Energy Consumption evidence base BEE needs to bring the sector under mandatory regulation.
The Problem
The gap CRID is closing
Industrial gases are critical inputs across steel, refining, chemicals, electronics and hydrogen, but their energy performance remains outside PAT because India lacks credible plant-level SEC baselines. Policy attention has gone to individual gases or to gas-consuming industries, never to a cross-gas energy baseline, and supply modes differ sharply across captive/on-site, bulk merchant and packaged cylinder markets — so no boundary-normalised method exists. Demand is rising with steel, electronics, semiconductors and hydrogen, and inefficient captive assets built now can lock in for decades.
CRID's Approach
How we're building this
A 10-month study with five objectives: compile international SEC standards and best-practice values by gas and production route; assess actual on-the-ground SEC through structured field visits across supply modes; map routes, clusters and system boundaries only to the level of detail needed to normalise SEC; compare Indian SEC against international benchmarks and quantify the gap by gas and route; and formulate a PAT/CCTS policy note covering SEC baselines, designation logic and target-setting method. Six deliverables convert the field assessment into a regulation-ready case: a benchmark compendium, SEC templates, a validated Indian dataset, a prioritised gap list, a policy note and a final package.
Expected Impact
What changes when this lands
PAT already sets and trades SEC targets, and CCTS adds a carbon-market pull from 2026 — the missing piece is credible benchmark data. With it, BEE and the Ministry of Power can set fair targets, gas producers get comparable benchmarks, and the steel, refining, chemicals, electronics and hydrogen sectors that depend on these gases get efficient inputs. Without it, an energy-intensive and fast-growing sector stays outside mandatory regulation while inefficient assets lock in for decades.
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