Latest Hydrogen News in India July'21

Latest Hydrogen News from around India

1. Green Hydrogen Consumption Obligation: Fertiliser plants and refineries may have to use green hydrogen to meet 0.15 percent of their total hydrogen requirements, starting 2023-24, and raise this to a tenth within six years.
2. Hydrogen Economy: “What can be attempted with modest resources? The best way to take optimal decisions is to find a fulltime, or part time, Director for the Mission with domain knowledge and leadership ability. The Mission should have an empowered Governing Body with full flexibility to use allocated resources. Instead of looking at targets of hydrogen production and PLI (Production Linked Incentive), it would be best to identify parts of the hydrogen production and supply chain where there is talent and potential in India to innovate and reduce costs.” – Ajay Shankar
3. JSW Energy: JSW Future Energy has entered into a framework agreement with Australian Fortescue Future Industries to collaborate on green hydrogen production. Apart from green hydrogen production, JSW Energy and Fortescue Future will conduct scoping work on utilisation of the fuel for green steel making, hydrogen mobility, green ammonia and other mutually agreed industrial applications in India.
4. Green Hydrogen Mobility: NTPC REL, a 100 per cent subsidiary of NTPC, signed a MoU with the Union Territory of Ladakh, to set up the country’s first green Hydrogen Mobility project in the region.NTPC has plans to ply five hydrogen buses, to start with, in the region and the company will be setting up a solar plant and a green hydrogen generation unit in Leh towards this end.
5. First Green Hydrogen Plant:Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is all set to build the country’s first green hydrogen plant at Mathura Refinery to meet the growing energy needs.Indian Oil has a wind power project in Rajasthan and the management intends use the power produced here to its Mathura refinery.