{"id":153690,"date":"2021-12-16T19:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=153690"},"modified":"2021-12-16T19:23:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:53:19","slug":"indias-first-and-one-of-worlds-largest-green-hydrogen-microgrid-projects-to-be-set-up-at-simhadri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-and-one-of-worlds-largest-green-hydrogen-microgrid-projects-to-be-set-up-at-simhadri\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s first and one of world\u2019s largest Green Hydrogen Microgrid Projects to be set up at Simhadri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the news?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NTPC Ltd has awarded a project of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStandalone Fuel-Cell based Micro-grid with hydrogen production using an electrolyser in NTPC Guest House <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at its Simhadri plant in Andhra Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About <\/b><b>Green Hydrogen Microgrid Project<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is India\u2019s first Green Hydrogen based Energy Storage Project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under this project, hydrogen would be produced using the advanced 240 kW Solid Oxide Electrolyser by taking input power from the nearby<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worlds-largest-floating-solar-energy-project-in-omkareshwar-dam\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> Floating Solar project.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hydrogen produced during sunshine hours would be stored at high pressure and would be electrified using a 50 kW Solid Oxide <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explainedhow-cars-can-run-on-hydrogen-fuel-cell\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Fuel Cell.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The system would work in standalone mode from 5 pm to 7 am.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><b>Must read: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/green-hydrogen-explained-pointwise\/#:~:text=Green%20Hydrogen%20is%20the%20clean,solar%20power%20and%20wind%20energy.&amp;text=Green%20hydrogen%20is%20produced%20via,and%20large%20supplies%20of%20electricity.\"><b><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Green Hydrogen: Potential, Issues and Solutions<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of this project?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><em><b>Firstly,<\/b><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it is a unique project for India and would open doors for decarbonising the far-off regions of the country like Ladakh, J&amp;K etc, which as of now are dependent on diesel generators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Secondly,<\/b><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">project is in-line with the vision of the Prime Minister for becoming carbon-neutral by 2070 and making Ladakh a carbon-neutral territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must Read<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/glasgow-climate-pact-cop26-outcomes-explained-pointwise\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Glasgow Climate Pact (GCP) &#8211; Explained, pointwise<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>India\u2019s first and one of world\u2019s largest Green Hydrogen Microgrid Projects to be set up at Simhadri<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b>on<b> 15<sup>th<\/sup> Dec 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? NTPC Ltd has awarded a project of \u201cStandalone Fuel-Cell based Micro-grid with hydrogen production using an electrolyser in NTPC Guest House at its Simhadri plant in Andhra Pradesh. About Green Hydrogen Microgrid Project It is India\u2019s first Green Hydrogen based Energy Storage Project. Under this project, hydrogen would be produced using&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-and-one-of-worlds-largest-green-hydrogen-microgrid-projects-to-be-set-up-at-simhadri\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s first and one of world\u2019s largest Green Hydrogen Microgrid Projects to be set up at Simhadri<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-153690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700776186,"cached_date":1704751742},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}