The world of clean hydrogen buzzing with activity

Source: The post is based on an article “The world of clean hydrogen buzzing with activity” published in The Business Standard on 2^nd September 2022.

Syllabus: GS 3 – Energy and associated issues

Context: The article discusses the steps that have been taken by India and other countries for promoting green hydrogen.

What is green hydrogen?

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What is needed to increasing the production of Green Hydrogen?

Green hydrogen has a critical role to play in decarbonization and the achievement of net-zero emissions.

There are four things needed to scale it up:

• Competitively priced renewable energy
• Electrolysers
• Supporting physical infrastructure
• Policy push

One of India’s advantages is cost-competitive renewable energy.

What steps have been taken in India?

Reliance is one of the largest producers of grey hydrogen globally.

It has announced to deliver green hydrogen at the lowest cost and to progressively commence transition from grey hydrogen to green hydrogen by 2025.

This will be supported by a giga-scale electrolyser manufacturing facility.

The Adani Group announced a partnership with Total Energies for its green hydrogen push.

The company targets production of 1 million tonnes of green hydrogen per year by 2030.

What steps have been taken worldwide?

US have recently passed Inflation Reduction Act. It is the world’s first tax credits for hydrogen.

Amazon announced to buy almost 11,000 tonnes of liquid green hydrogen from Plug Power annually.

Walmart had signed a similar deal with Plug Power to get up to 20 tonnes per day of carbon free hydrogen to power material-handling lift trucks in the US.

Canada is aiming to become a major producer and exporter of hydrogen as well as related clean technologies.

Germany is aiming to import significant amounts of renewable hydrogen to decarbonise its hard-to-abate sectors in line with its 2045 climate neutrality target.