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Top 30 Cement Plants & Their 2025-27 Carbon Targets – CCTS Draft

CCTS Draft 2025 Puts India’s Cement Kilns on the Clock

“Concrete may build the nation, but clinker bakes the planet.”

India is the world’s #2 cement producer at roughly 450 Mt in 2024, and the sector coughs up ~7 % of the country’s total GHG load.

“Vertical graphic showing a cement plant and clinker pile; text reads ‘India is the world’s #2 cement producer at ~450 Mt (2024); sector emits ~7 % of national GHG load’ beneath Anaxee logo.”


The draft Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS 2023) finally slaps hard numbers on that footprint: every large kiln now carries a Greenhouse-gas Emission-Intensity (GEI) target for FY 2025-26 and FY 2026-27. Miss the mark? Buy credits or pay a fine. Beat it? Sell the excess and brag about it at the next ESG town-hall.

Below you’ll find:

– Five fast trends (skip the jargon, keep the juice).

– A ranked table of all 30 marquee plants—baseline GEI and both targets.

– A one-click Excel download for nerds who need every row.

– A plain-English explainer on GEI math, plus where offsets could hide.

1 Five trends you should care about
What’s happening 💡 Why it matters
Clinker-to-cement ratio squeeze – BIS draft standard will let PPC hit 50 % fly-ash. Every 1 % less clinker chops ~0.8 kg CO₂/t cement.
Waste-heat recovery (WHR) binge – 900 MW WHR queued before 2027. A typical 2 MW unit shaves 3 kWh/t; that’s ≈ 20 kg CO₂/t.
Green power PPAs everywhere – UltraTech just signed 370 MW solar-plus-storage bloc. Lowers scope-2, but CCTS counts direct kiln CO₂ too—so only partial relief.
AFR race – Shree, Dalmia running >25 % alternative fuel in some lines. Each % AFR means less pet-coke; credit price could decide how fast others copy.
Anaxee angle – 50 000 Digital Runners can verify kiln-gate AFR receipts & quarry reclamation plots without sending head-office staff on red-eye flights. Proof beats promises when you monetize GEI over-performance.
2 Rank-wise list of every plant
Graphic showing assorted cement bags—UltraTech, Ambuja, ACC, Shree, Dalmia, Birla Samrat, Sankar, Ramco, Birla A1, Mycem—arranged around the Anaxee logo.
Sr. No. Company Baseline_Output_tonnes Baseline_GEI_tCO2_per_t Target_GEI_2025_26 Target_GEI_2026_27
1 UltraTech Cement Ltd, Andhra Pradesh (Tadipatri) 2403232 0.844 0.831 0.819
2 UltraTech Cement Ltd, Gujarat (Kovaya) 2368155 0.852 0.839 0.826
3 ACC Ltd, Wadi, Karnataka 4676173 0.878 0.865 0.852
4 ACC Ltd, Jamul, Chhattisgarh 4152749 0.933 0.919 0.905
5 Ambuja Cements Ltd, Maratha, Maharashtra 2103444 0.939 0.925 0.911
6 Ambuja Cements Ltd, Bhatapara, Chhattisgarh 4320571 0.849 0.836 0.824
7 Shree Cement Ltd, Beawar, Rajasthan 3675378 0.869 0.856 0.843
8 Shree Cement Ltd, Raipur, Chhattisgarh 3550292 0.909 0.895 0.882
9 Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd, Dalmiapuram, Tamil Nadu 4223216 0.904 0.89 0.877
10 Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd, Belgaum, Karnataka 2694573 0.872 0.859 0.846
11 Ramco Cements Ltd, Alathiyur, Tamil Nadu 3187076 0.855 0.842 0.829
12 Ramco Cements Ltd, Jayanthipuram, Andhra Pradesh 3691112 0.94 0.926 0.912
13 JSW Cement, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh 3144009 0.929 0.915 0.901
14 Birla Corporation, Satna, Madhya Pradesh 2274686 0.861 0.848 0.835
15 JK Cement, Nimbahera, Rajasthan 3930368 0.842 0.829 0.817
16 JK Lakshmi Cement, Sirohi, Rajasthan 1579616 0.925 0.911 0.897
17 Orient Cement, Devapur, Telangana 1833271 0.936 0.922 0.908
18 India Cements, Malkapur, Telangana 4027798 0.872 0.859 0.846
19 Heidelberg Cement India, Damoh, Madhya Pradesh 3348137 0.825 0.813 0.8
20 OCL India, Rajgangpur, Odisha 3264715 0.946 0.932 0.918
21 Penna Cement, Tandur, Telangana 4674025 0.866 0.853 0.84
22 Sagar Cements, Mattampally, Telangana 1518153 0.838 0.825 0.813
23 Prism Johnson, Satna, Madhya Pradesh 2252719 0.885 0.872 0.858
24 Nuvoco Vistas, Mejia, West Bengal 3638047 0.866 0.853 0.84
25 Wonder Cement, Nimbahera, Rajasthan 1567511 0.853 0.84 0.827
26 Kesoram Cement, Sedam, Karnataka 2675449 0.897 0.884 0.87
27 Star Cement, Lumshnong, Meghalaya 4338057 0.864 0.851 0.838
28 Century Cement, Baikunth, Chhattisgarh 1864135 0.855 0.842 0.829
29 Anjani Portland Cement, Gudimalkapur, Telangana 3559336 0.949 0.935 0.921
30 My Home Industries, Mellacheruvu, Telangana 3012556 0.841 0.828 0.816

Units: GEI in t CO₂ per tonne clinker. Ranking = highest baseline output first (the big emitters).

(Data transcribed from the draft schedule; figures will be final once MoP issues the gazette.)

3 GEI=

-GEI = total kiln & calciner CO₂ / tonnes of clinker.

-Two targets: soft-landing FY 25-26, then hard stop FY 26-27.

-Penalty = credit shortfall × 2 × credit-price (rumoured ₹800–₹1 000 / t).

-Surplus = tradable asset—cash in or bank for future years.

If your kiln sits at 0.92 t/t and the target is 0.90, you owe ~20 kg per tonne. Produce 4 Mt = 80 000 t shortfall → ₹64–80 cr liability at ₹800–₹1 000. Motivation enough?

4 Who buys, who sells?
Likely Credit Buyers Likely Credit Sellers
ACC Jamul, Ambuja Maratha – older wet-kiln lineage, pet-coke heavy. UltraTech Kovaya – already at 0.83 t, targets barely nudge.
Orient Devapur – high clinker factor, limited WHR. JK Cement Nimbahera – AFR > 25 %, big WHR unit.
Century Baikunth – legacy, low alternative fuel. Ramco Alathiyur – mid-life kiln, WHR + solar PPA in place.
5 How do they close the gap?

  1. Fly-ash frenzy: PPC can legally hit >45 % ash under new BIS draft—fastest lever.

  2. AFR switch: Tyre-chips, RDF, agri-waste all count; 10 % AFR ≈ 5 % GEI drop.

  3. Calcined clay blends: LC³ pilot at Tata’s Jamshedpur R&D shows 40 % clinker cut.

  4. WHR/solar hybrids: Slashes power-plant coal but only marginal GEI change—still worth credits in other schemes.

  5. Offset route: Buy agroforestry, biochar, biogas-stove credits—hello, Anaxee last-mile MRV.

6 FAQ – asked in the canteen

Q : Why not rank by GEI instead of output?
A: Big tonnes = big emissions = big credit demand. Output tells you who moves the market.

Q : Is 0.82 t really “best in class”?
A: European BAT hovers around 0.76 t, but they burn 50 % AFR and pay €90 / t EU-ETS. India can catch up if credit price bites.

Q : Will the targets tighten in 2028?
A: Almost certainly—MoP hinted at 2 % year-on-year ratchet after the pilot phase.

7. So what?/Call-to-Action

Cutting kiln CO₂ isn’t romantic—it’s limestone chemistry and a pile of money. But with CCTS, every percent saved is a tradable rupee. Whether you retrofit a pre-heater cyclones or co-fire sugarcane trash, you’ll need bullet-proof proof. Anaxee’s 50 000 Digital Runners can collect that proof from quarries to village pellet plants—so you only sweat the board meetings, not the field sweat.

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