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Latest Hydrogen News in India April'21

Hydrogen
9 May, 2021
  1. Indian Oil signed a statement of intent with Greenstat, a Norwegian company, to set up a Centre of Excellence on Hydrogen (CoE-H) in the country and accelerate the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
  2. Indian Oil has floated a tender for setting up a green hydrogen generation demonstration unit. They are hopeful that by mid-2022, they will see ready-to-demonstrate systems at our R&D centre in Faridabad, Haryana
  3. Cummins India Managing Director Ashwath Ram said “We are more focused on hydrogen because Cummins has a leading technology there whether it be in rail fuel cells, or automotive fuel cells or even in hydrogen generation Cummins has its own technology.”
  4. L&T: We are seriously thinking of looking at green hydrogen, that is hydrolysis of water and producing hydrogen, says SN Subrahmanyan, CEO & MD, L&T.
  5. Reliance Industries and Chart Industries are leading a new coalition focussed on commercialising hydrogen technologies. India needs ‘hydrogen-valley’ style national initiatives across a region like a high-traffic industrial freight corridor, with multiple use-cases,” said Anurag Pandey, R&D team lead at Reliance Industries. Jillian Evanko, CEO of Chart Industries, stated: “Proactive industry collaboration with the government is key to creating a hydrogen economy in India.
  6. India- France Coalition to lower production cost of carbon free hydrogen
  7. The Energy Forum (TEF) and the Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry (FIPI), under the aegis of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, organised a Hydrogen Roundtable titled “Hydrogen Economy- the Indian Dialogue-2021” in a virtual mode on 15th April, 2021. This high-level roundtable conference will be led by Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel, who will deliver the inaugural keynote. It will be followed by keynotes from Dr. Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, UAE, Angus Taylor, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Australia, Dan Jørgensen, Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities, Denmark, and David M. Turk, Deputy Secretary of Energy, United States, who will present their insights on policy roadmaps, and demand and supply dynamics.
  8. The government is planning to use 2,000 mega-watt (MW) solar and wind power capacity for hydrogen production. It will also hold green hydrogen auctions as part of a broader plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Sources said plans were also afoot to make it mandatory for user industries like fertilisers and petroleum refineries to purchase 10% of their hydrogen requirements from domestic green hydrogen sources.
  9. K. Malhotra, the president of the Hydrogen Association of India, said that eventually, India would be use fuel cells as well as hydrogen in vehicles, but the blending into natural gas and CNG would be the initial stage for “quite some time” in India. “This is important because India is expanding the gas grid all over various parts of the country.”
  10. “Efforts are underway to leverage the vast CNG pipeline infrastructure to reduce the transportation cost of hydrogen,” Dharmendra Pradhan said while addressing a roundtable titled Hydrogen Economy: New Delhi Dialogue—2021.
  11. India will spend $200 million over the next five to seven years to promote the use of hydrogen, Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi, the top bureaucrat at India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, said at a virtual industry event on Thursday.
  12. India and the United States will launch a Hydrogen Task Force under the Strategic Energy Partnership between the two countries soon, announced US Deputy Secretary of Energy, David M Turk. He said that hydrogen will be especially valuable for large-scale and long-duration energy storage to “meet our goal of a completely carbon-free grid by 2035”.
  13. According to the petition in Delhi High Court, the plaintiff “was seeking the Court’s direction to expand the scope and ambit of the FAME India Phase II scheme and extend and encompass the hydrogen energy infrastructure.”
  14. For the first phase of the National Hydrogen mission, specific activities have been identified and the financial outlay of Rs 800 crores is proposed from 2021 to 2024 said officials. This public funding support for pilot projects, infrastructure development and R&D is expected to be leveraged with investments of around Rs 11000 crores from industrial and institutional stakeholders.
  15. The other challenge is that the current cost of green hydrogen production is $5-6/kg, which is almost thrice the cost of grey hydrogen, says Renjith G, research associate at Delhi-based research institute TERI. The aim is to cut the cost of green hydrogen to less than $2/kg, which is a potential tipping point that will make it competitive in multiple sectors including steel and fertiliser, power generation and shipping. The focus so far has been in transportation and power generation sectors, says DMR Panda, general manager, hydrogen and renewable energy, NTPC, which is part of the team giving shape to green hydrogen economy in the country. Shaswattam, general manager of NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance, says “Most of the present electrolysers are alkaline. We are working with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre to develop solid oxide steam electrolysers. This is the future and is 25 per cent more efficient than existing electrolysers.”
  16. “Challenges for India-Japan hydrogen research is cost reduction and improved performance for fuel cells, hydrogen storage, challenges for viable green hydrogen process routes, significant investments required for research infrastructure and support for commercialisation,” Rangan Banerjee, Forbes Marshall Chair Professor, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay pointed out.
  17. The government may extend the production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for manufacturing electrolyzers, which are used for producing green hydrogen.
References:

  1. https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/our-automation-strategies-have-got-a-boost-in-last-one-year-shrikant-madhav-vaidya-chairman-indian-oil-corp/2225832/
  2. https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/indian-oil-corp-prepares-to-make-vehicles-run-on-clean-hydrogen-in-2022-121040100524_1.html
  3. https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/demand-in-segments-that-company-caters-to-has-come-back-cummins-india-121040400578_1.html
  4. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/sn-subrahmanyan-on-his-long-term-vision-for-lt/videoshow/81758225.cms
  5. https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/energy-giant-reliance-industries-leads-alliance-pioneering-indian-hydrogen-valley/2-1-992312
  6. https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/india-france-coalition-has-important-role-to-play-in-indo-pacific-region-says-le-drian20210414164149/
  7. https://indiaeducationdiary.in/inaugural-edition-of-the-hydrogen-economy-new-delhi-dialogue-2021/ ; http://www.ddinews.gov.in/business/tef-and-fipi-organise-hydrogen-roundtable-today
  8. https://www.financialexpress.com/economy/green-hydrogen-auctions-purchase-obligations-in-the-offing/2233196/
  9. https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/041521-india-eyes-plan-plan-to-blend-hydrogen-in-natural-gas-grid-sees-biomass-as-h2-feedstock
  10. https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-to-leverage-cng-pipeline-grid-to-transport-hydrogen-dharmendra-pradhan-11618479842939.html
  11. https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewable/india-to-spend-200-million-in-next-5-7-years-to-promote-hydrogen-use/82093887
  12. https://www.livemint.com/news/india/us-india-to-launch-hydrogen-task-force-under-strategic-energy-partnership-11618488403358.html
  13. https://www.financialexpress.com/auto/industry/hydrogen-fuel-cell-cars-likely-to-fall-under-fame-ii-rules-huge-benefits-possible-pollution-emissions/2233676/
  14. https://www.zeebiz.com/india/news-centre-readies-national-hydrogen-mission-800-crore-outlay-planned-154990
  15. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/energy/from-petro-to-electro-why-hydrogen-could-be-the-fuel-of-the-future-76453
  16. http://www.ddinews.gov.in/national/experts-india-japan-discussed-collaborations-innovations-hydrogen-based-technologies
  17. https://www.livemint.com/news/india/pli-scheme-may-extend-to-electrolyzers-for-producing-green-hydrogen-11619686576509.html
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