Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin opened Hitachi Energy's largest Global Technology and Innovation Centre in Chennai on Thursday.

The Centre is set across 3,00,000 square feet at the Commerzone IT Park on Mount Ponnamallee Road in Porur, with nearly 50,000 square feet of dedicated lab space.

The facility will house over 2,500 energy transition technologists with post-doctorate and postgraduate degrees, specialising in grid automation, transformers, high-voltage and grid integration. The Centre is equipped to execute over 1,000 projects a year across 40 countries in the world.

“Such world-class innovation and technology centres coming up in Tamil Nadu reflect the quality of our local talent and will further boost the State’s vision of becoming a trillion-dollar economy by 2030,” Stalin said.

Hitachi Energy launched its energy generation unit in Tamil Nadu in February this year, and Thursday’s function is its continuation, he said.