The future of energy is being rebuilt by creating the same essential molecules through intelligent, circular systems powered by renewable resources. cistech is building the platforms that make it possible.
The energy transition is one of the most important stories of our generation. Electricity was chapter one.
The next chapter is written in molecules, fuels and infrastructure for industries that electricity cannot reach.
Industries requiring new energy systems
The Future of Industrial Energy
Today's Energy System
The Transition Required
Tomorrow's Energy System
This is where cistech exists.
The future isn't built by technologies alone.
It is built by integrating innovation, engineering, infrastructure and execution into systems that industries can rely on. cistech is a technology-enabled integrated energy platform that transforms breakthrough technologies into operating industrial infrastructure — from concept and financing to construction, commissioning and long-term operations.
The Energy Nobody Talks About
The energy transition is often viewed through the lens of electricity. Yet electricity represents only a portion of the world's total energy demand. Heavy industries—aviation, shipping, steel, chemicals, cement and fertilizers—depend on energy forms that cannot simply be electrified.
The next phase of the energy transition will be built not only through renewable power, but through new molecules, fuels and industrial systems. This is the energy nobody talks about.
This is where cistech exists.
Industrial Proof
NTPC × cistech
Under ImplementationWorld-first commercial-scale demonstration of hydrogen production from municipal solid waste through plasma gasification.
YOKI Biofuels Complex
Ultra Mega ProjectIntegrated biomass-based renewable fuels platform accorded Ultra Mega status by the Government of Maharashtra. MoU at Davos.
Biomass to SAF Platform
In DevelopmentEnd-to-end SAF platform via biomass gasification and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. ASTM D7566 certified.
Industries We Serve
Green Hydrogen · DRI
Green Methanol · Ammonia
Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Green Ammonia · Urea
Methanol · Syngas
Green Hydrogen · Carbon
We Build What Energy Needs Next
The cistech Platform
From feedstock sourcing to long-term operations — cistech owns the entire value chain. No technology is real until it runs at scale.
Feedstocks
Waste, biomass and renewable carbon — resources the world produces at scale, that most industries discard.
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF)
Agricultural Residues
Biomass
Renewable Carbon Feedstocks
Carbon Dioxide (selected pathways)
Technology Platforms
cistech integrates proprietary and licensed technologies across the full conversion spectrum — from raw feedstock to certified industrial products.
Feedstock Handling & Preparation
Plasma / Biomass Gasification
Syngas Cleaning & Conditioning
Fischer-Tropsch / H₂ Separation
Product Refining & Certification
Integrated Execution
Most projects fail at the transition between innovation and industry. cistech owns this continuum — from technology development to long-term operations.
Developing, validating and integrating breakthrough energy conversion technologies in partnership with leading research institutions — BARC, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, CSIR.
Process design, FEED studies, detailed engineering and technical documentation for complex, multi-system energy conversion facilities.
Site selection, feasibility analysis, environmental clearances and stakeholder engagement for industrial energy infrastructure projects.
Structuring financing solutions across equity, debt and government instruments for capital-intensive energy projects at industrial scale.
End-to-end procurement and construction management, integrating global technology suppliers with rigorous local execution standards.
System integration, performance testing and industrial startup for complex multi-unit energy conversion facilities.
Long-term operations, performance optimisation and asset lifecycle management for integrated industrial energy platforms.
Products
H₂
CH₃OH
ASTM D7566
NH₃
CO + H₂
Various
MW Scale
CO₂-Derived
Flagship Projects
Each project is not a demonstration. It is a platform. Built end-to-end, from technology through operations, proving that the most complex industrial energy transitions are executable.
Project 01 — Under Implementation
The Challenge
Municipal solid waste is one of the most abundant and lowest-cost energy resources in India — yet it ends up in landfills. Meanwhile, the industrial hydrogen economy requires clean feedstocks that are not natural gas. This project bridges both problems through a single integrated system.
Why Conventional Approaches Failed
Conventional gasification systems struggle with heterogeneous feedstocks like MSW. The syngas quality is insufficient for downstream hydrogen separation. Plasma gasification — operating at temperatures exceeding 5,000°C — overcomes this by achieving complete carbon conversion regardless of feedstock variability.
The Engineering Solution
cistech developed and integrated the full system: RDF preparation from raw MSW, plasma-assisted gasification at 30 TPD capacity, multi-stage syngas cleaning and conditioning, pressure swing adsorption for hydrogen separation, and compression and storage infrastructure to deliver 1 MT of green hydrogen per day.
Future Significance
This project creates a replicable template for decentralized green hydrogen production co-located with urban waste infrastructure. India alone generates 150,000+ tonnes of MSW daily — the potential feedstock base for a distributed hydrogen economy is vast.
Plasma Gasification System — NTPC NETRA, Greater Noida
30 TPD
RDF feedstock capacity
1 MT/day
Green hydrogen output
5,000°C+
Plasma temperature achieved
World First
Commercial-scale waste-to-H₂
"The complete value chain — from waste supply and RDF production through gasification, syngas cleaning, hydrogen separation, compression and storage — integrated into a single execution platform."
Project 02 — Ultra Mega Project · Maharashtra
The Opportunity
Maharashtra's agricultural regions produce vast quantities of biomass residue — rice straw, bagasse, cotton stalks — largely burned in fields. The IMO 2050 mandate for net-zero shipping creates an enormous and growing demand for green methanol. This project was designed to turn one into the other at commercial scale.
Scale and Recognition
The project was accorded Ultra Mega status by the Government of Maharashtra — the highest level of industrial project recognition — and the MoU was signed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Land has been acquired. Phase I is now underway.
The Platform Architecture
Phase I: 50,000 MTPA Green Methanol from 150,000+ MTPA biomass. Phase II expands to Green Ammonia for fertilizers. Phase III adds SAF capacity. Each phase builds on the same gasification infrastructure, compounding returns with each addition.
Palghar Biofuels Complex — Maharashtra, India
150,000+
MTPA biomass feedstock (Phase I)
50,000
MTPA Green Methanol (Phase I)
Davos
MoU signed at WEF
Ultra Mega
Maharashtra government recognition
Project 03 — In Development
The Context
Global SAF production is currently less than 0.1% of aviation fuel demand. India has a growing aviation market, emerging blending mandates, and abundant agricultural biomass. This platform is positioned at the intersection of all three — creating a domestically produced, export-grade SAF supply chain for Indian and international carriers.
The Technology
Biomass gasification produces a clean syngas stream that is conditioned and fed into Fischer-Tropsch synthesis — producing a synthetic hydrocarbon mix that, after refining, meets ASTM D7566 specification. The resulting SAF blends directly with conventional ATF without aircraft modification, achieving up to 80% lifecycle carbon reduction.
Feedstock & Supply Chain
The biomass-to-SAF platform targets India's growing aviation market, with feedstock sourced from agricultural residues and biomass available at scale across the country.
SAF Production Platform — Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
20,000
MTPA SAF target output
80%
Lifecycle carbon reduction vs. conventional ATF
ASTM D7566
International certification
100,000+
MTPA feedstock capacityting & distribution partner
Industries
For the world's hardest-to-abate industries, the energy transition requires more than renewable power. It requires new molecules, new fuels and entirely new industrial infrastructure.
Steel
Green Hydrogen · DRI
"Today's steel depends on coal. Tomorrow's steel depends on hydrogen."
The Problem Today
Steel production consumes 8% of global energy and generates ~8% of global CO₂. It depends on coking coal both as fuel and as a chemical reductant in the blast furnace — a process that has remained fundamentally unchanged for 200 years.
Why Electricity Cannot Fix This
Electric arc furnaces can recycle scrap steel, but primary production from iron ore requires a chemical agent to strip oxygen from the ore. Coal or hydrogen must do this job. Electricity, alone, cannot.
The Future: Green Hydrogen DRI
Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) using green hydrogen as the reductant eliminates coal from steelmaking entirely. cistech's hydrogen production platforms provide the clean H₂ supply that makes this possible at industrial scale.
How cistech Enables This
cistech's waste-to-hydrogen and biomass-to-hydrogen platforms provide the infrastructure layer for green hydrogen supply — connecting waste streams and biomass to the DRI steelmaking systems that will define the next generation of the industry.
Shipping
Green Methanol · Ammonia
"Today's ships run on the world's dirtiest fuel. Tomorrow's ships will run on methanol or ammonia."
The Problem Today
International shipping carries 90%+ of world trade on heavy fuel oil — one of the most carbon-intensive fuels available. The sector emits roughly 1 billion tonnes of CO₂ annually. IMO 2050 requires net-zero emissions from the global fleet.
Why Electricity Cannot Fix This
A large containership requires the equivalent of 300,000 electric car batteries to make a single transoceanic crossing. The energy density mismatch between batteries and liquid fuels makes battery-electric shipping physically impossible at commercial scale.
The Future: Green Methanol
Green methanol is already being adopted by Maersk, CMA CGM and other major carriers as the primary transition fuel. It is liquid at ambient conditions, compatible with existing fuel infrastructure, and achievable from biomass gasification at scale.
How cistech Enables This
cistech's Palghar Biofuels Complex (Phase I: 50,000 MTPA Green Methanol) directly targets the marine fuel market — producing ASTM-certified low-carbon methanol from agricultural biomass for international shipping customers.
Aviation
Sustainable Aviation Fuel
"Long-haul aviation will never be electric. SAF is not a compromise — it is the only path."
The Problem Today
Aviation contributes ~2.5% of global CO₂ emissions, with demand expected to triple by 2050. Conventional jet fuel is derived entirely from fossil crude. No electric aircraft exists or is plausible for long-haul commercial routes.
Why Electricity Cannot Fix This
Kerosene contains ~12,000 Wh/kg of energy. The best lithium-ion batteries deliver ~250 Wh/kg. The 48× energy density gap cannot be closed by engineering — it is a fundamental constraint of electrochemistry.
The Future: SAF at Scale
Sustainable Aviation Fuel — produced from biomass, waste or synthetic pathways — is a certified drop-in replacement for conventional jet fuel. ASTM D7566 certified SAF can be blended and used in existing aircraft and airports without any modification.
How cistech Enables This
cistech's 20,000 MTPA SAF Platform — via biomass gasification and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis — creates India's first large-scale domestic SAF supply chain for both domestic and international aviation markets.
Fertilizers
Green Ammonia · Urea
"Every tonne of conventional fertilizer contains embedded fossil carbon. Green ammonia changes this entirely."
The Problem Today
The Haber-Bosch process produces ammonia for fertilizers using natural gas as both energy source and hydrogen feedstock. Producing one tonne of ammonia emits approximately 1.8 tonnes of CO₂. India is the world's second-largest fertilizer consumer.
The Future: Green Ammonia
Green ammonia — produced by combining green hydrogen with atmospheric nitrogen — replaces fossil ammonia with zero direct carbon emissions. The chemical product is identical. The supply chain, energy source and carbon footprint are entirely different.
India's Strategic Opportunity
India's fertilizer sector imports both fossil gas and ammonia at significant foreign exchange cost. Transitioning to domestic green ammonia from waste and biomass reduces import dependency, strengthens food security and decarbonizes agriculture simultaneously.
How cistech Enables This
cistech's green hydrogen platforms provide the H₂ feedstock for green ammonia synthesis. The Palghar Complex includes green ammonia in Phase II — positioned to serve both domestic fertilizer manufacturers and the emerging export market for green ammonia.
Work With cistech
Insights
Perspectives on industrial decarbonization, advanced energy technologies and the infrastructure being built for what comes next.
Energy Transition
Aviation
Steel
Waste Management
Shipping
India
Platform
Execution
About cistech
"The future of energy will not be built by electricity alone. It will be built by reimagining the fuels, molecules and infrastructure that power the world's industries."
Our Purpose
cistech is a technology-enabled integrated energy platform building the next generation of industrial energy systems. We bridge breakthrough technologies with industrial execution, transforming waste, biomass and renewable resources into clean fuels, green molecules and sustainable industrial infrastructure.
From technology development and engineering to project financing, construction, commissioning and long-term operations, cistech delivers end-to-end energy platforms that help decarbonize hard-to-abate industries while strengthening energy security.
A pioneering builder with the courage to imagine and the capability to build what's next for energy.
Long-Term Vision
Every project we build expands what we know and what we can do. Our compounding platform is designed to become the infrastructure layer for the world's industrial energy transition.
Contact
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Nariman Point, Mumbai
Maharashtra, India
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Near Iscon Circle, Ahmedabad – 380015, Gujarat, India
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"A pioneering builder with the courage to imagine and the capability to build what's next for energy."