India Launches 200-Crore Plan for Green Hydrogen Production

A 200-crore plan has been launched by the Indian government to encourage the production of green hydrogen. This project focuses on cutting-edge techniques for both commercial and domestic usage. A number of pilot programs are described by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. These include wastewater conversion, biomass utilization, and floating solar-powered hydrogen synthesis. Decentralizing the usage of hydrogen for off-grid energy production, cooking, and heating is the goal.

Green Hydrogen Scheme Overview:

• A 200 crore pilot project to focus on innovative solutions for green hydrogen.
• Addresses a wide variety of uses—both social and economic.
• A government organ will oversee the implementation. 
• Innovative methods include floating solar panels, biomass-based hydrogen production, and technology used in water treatment processes.

Decentralized Applications

• Mainly on cooking and heating products, off-grid electricity products, and off-road mobility solutions.
• It seeks to eliminate dependency on conventional electricity supply systems. Global solar photovoltaic market and India’s position on it
• Increased in the export of solar photovoltaic (PV) by $2 billion export in 2023-24.
• Waree, Adani, and Vikram are the major contributors for this cause.

The impact of US trade policies 

• The government policies, such as the new policies on import and export between the US, affect the importation of solar systems.
• There could be numerous advantages to Indian exporters in place of import tariffs from Southeast Asian countries.
• The battery market in India is very import-dependent, and the expectation of local battery use will be only 30% by 2030. 

Future Prospects

• Formation of a green hydrogen value chain and creation of facilities such as refueling stations.
• Problems in the battery sector provoked by the dependence on imports that continue in the present day.

exam point

• Green hydrogen is produced from renewable electricity sources, comparing favorably to hydrocarbons.
• Uses comprise use in cooking, heating, and electricity production.
• Biomass utilization is the process of converting organic matter into energy, which serves diverse objectives of sustainability, the reduction of waste, and carbon outputs.
• Floating solar panels do not require a ground footprint to produce clean energy and are under consideration for use in hydrogen production.
• The International Energy Agency makes available product and consumption statistical overviews of energy markets, plus energy markets production and consumption forecasts, and advises global energy sector policy.