Refiners IOC, Hindustan Petroleum and MRPL are to bring on line a total of 14,800 t/yr of production capacity by 2025-26, while Bharat Petroleum, Numaligarh Refinery and Chennai Petroleum will have 16,000 t/yr ready by 2030, a government document showed.
This brings the total green hydrogen production by the refineries to 30,800 t/yr, leaving the remaining of around 4.97mn t/yr of Delhi’s production target for private-sector companies such as Reliance Industries, NTPC, Adani, JSW Energy, ReNew Power and Acme Solar that are building electrolyser capacity to produce green hydrogen in the next few years.
“Refineries in the country already utilise hydrogen for internal consumption which has the potential to be converted into green hydrogen,” Teli said on 13 March.
Under the National Green Hydrogen Mission, the government has made an initial outlay of 197.44bn rupees ($2.39bn), to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and make India into a global hydrogen hub.
The government has detailed its plans for promoting domestic hydrogen production and establishing 60-100GW of electrolyser capacity by 2030, besides developing 125GW of renewable energy capacity for dedicated use in the production of green hydrogen and associated transmission.
India’s ministry for ports, shipping and waterways also has identified Gujarat’s Deendayal, Odisha’s Paradip and Tamil Nadu’s VO Chidambaranar ports for development into hydrogen hubs to handle, store and produce renewable hydrogen by 2030. The government will support increasing the share of green hydrogen use in its industrial sector to 25pc by replacing grey hydrogen, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the India Energy Week on 6 February.
