{"id":335078,"date":"2025-05-01T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=335078"},"modified":"2025-05-05T18:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:04:03","slug":"green-hydrogen-certification-scheme-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/green-hydrogen-certification-scheme-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News- <\/strong>The Government of India has introduced the Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme of India (GHCI) under the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/green-hydrogen-mission-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Green Hydrogen Mission<\/a>. <strong>Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme of India.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-335648 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Green-Hydrogen-Certification-Scheme-of-India.png?resize=577%2C383&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme of India\" width=\"577\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Green-Hydrogen-Certification-Scheme-of-India.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Green-Hydrogen-Certification-Scheme-of-India.png?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Green-Hydrogen-Certification-Scheme-of-India.png?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Green-Hydrogen-Certification-Scheme-of-India.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme of India (GHCI)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0 It is aimed at establishing a <em>framework to certify green hydrogen production<\/em> and ensure <em>transparency, traceability, and market credibility<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The GHCI mandates that all green hydrogen producers\u2014<em>except<\/em> those producing solely for export\u2014must undergo a certification process to verify that their <em>hydrogen is produced exclusively using renewable energy sources<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ministry<\/strong>: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal agency<\/strong>: Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)<\/li>\n<li>The MNRE is responsible for formulating a comprehensive methodology that includes the measurement, monitoring, reporting, on-site verification, and certification of green hydrogen and its associated derivatives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scope of certification- <\/strong>The certification is conducted at the project level, covering all production stages up to the compression and purification of hydrogen for transport.\n<ul>\n<li>Activities beyond the plant premises\u2014including transportation, storage, conversion to hydrogen carriers, reconversion, and final use\u2014are<em> excluded from the certification boundary.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Types of Certificates- <\/strong>The scheme allows for the issuance of two distinct types of certificates to green hydrogen production facilities:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Concept Certificate (Voluntary)<\/strong> \u2013 Issued during the design or planning stage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Facility-Level Certificate (Mandatory)<\/strong> \u2013 Issued based on actual facility operations and compliance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Emission Intensity Criteria Emissions must be<\/em> <em>calculated using the official MNRE Green Hydrogen Emission Calculation Methodology<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Green\u2019 Certification is conditional<\/em> on meeting the average emission intensity requirements of 2 kg CO2 eq\/kg H2 or less.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Certificate characteristics:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The green hydrogen certificate is <em>non-transferable and non-tradable<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>It <em>cannot be used to claim any form of emission reduction credits<\/em> under carbon markets or offset mechanisms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News- The Government of India has introduced the Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme of India (GHCI) under the National Green Hydrogen Mission. Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme of India. About Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme of India (GHCI) Purpose&#8211;\u00a0 It is aimed at establishing a framework to certify green hydrogen production and ensure transparency, traceability, and market credibility.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/green-hydrogen-certification-scheme-of-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme of India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":335648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12056],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-335078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Green-Hydrogen-Certification-Scheme-of-India.png?fit=1280%2C850&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335078","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\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}