India’s green hydrogen industry

Published: 29th Dec, 2022

Context

India is planning a $2 billion incentive programme for the green hydrogen industry, in a bid to cut emissions and become a major export player in the field.

Key Objective:

Reducing the production cost of green hydrogen by a fifth over the next five years.

The current costin India is Rs 300 to Rs 400 per kg.
- This will be done in part by increasing the scale of the industry.
- The incentive for making green hydrogen is likely to be Rs 50 per kg for three years.

Strategic Intervention for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT)

The green hydrogen proposal is likely to be called "Strategic Intervention for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT)".
It will be split into Rs 45 billion for electrolyzer manufacturing for five years and
The Rs 135 billion for green hydrogen and green ammonia production for three years.

How is the west approaching it?

The United States and the European Union have already approved incentives worth billions of dollars for green hydrogen projects.

About

About Green Hydrogen:

Hydrogen can be used as fuel.
It is made by splitting water with an electrical process, electrolysis.
If the devices that do that - electrolyzers - are powered by renewable energy, the product is called green hydrogen, a fuel-free of greenhouse emissions.

Green Hydrogen Policy Under the policy, the government is offering to set up manufacturing zones for production, connectivity to the ISTS (Inter-State Transmission System) on a priority basis, and free transmission for 25 years if the production facility is commissioned before June 2025. Green hydrogen is India: In order to become energy independent by 2047, the government stressed the need to introduce green hydrogen as an alternative fuel that can make India the global hub and a major exporter of hydrogen. India has just begun to generate green hydrogen with the objective of raising non-fossil energy capacity to 500 gigawatts by 2030. In April 2022, the public sector OIL, which is headquartered in eastern Assam’s Duliajan, set up India’s first 99.99% pure green hydrogen pilot plant in keeping with the goal of “making the country ready for the pilot-scale production of hydrogen and its use in various applications”. The plant was set up at the petroleum exploration major’s Jorhat pump station, also in eastern Assam. Powered by a 500 KW solar plant, the green hydrogen unit has an installed capacity to produce 10 kg of hydrogen per day and scale it up to 30 kg per day.

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