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Current Affairs
Title : Green Hydrogen: National Hydrogen Mission
Date : Nov 22, 2021
Description :
GS III
Topic à Conservation related issues.
- Context:
- The Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) has floated a global tender to set up green hydrogen generation units at two of its major refineries in North India, as part of the Narendra Modi government's National Hydrogen Mission.
- The Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) is the country's largest commercial undertaking, with the most refineries.
- What is green hydrogen, and how does it work:
- Green Hydrogen is hydrogen that is created by electrolysis with renewable energy and has no carbon footprint.
- Today's hydrogen is derived from fossil fuels, which are the most common source.
- Chemical techniques are utilised to release hydrogen from organic sources such as fossil fuels and biomass.
- Green Hydrogen's Importance:
- Green hydrogen energy is critical for India to reach its INDC targets and assure regional and national energy security, access, and availability.
- Green hydrogen can be used as an energy storage alternative, which will be necessary in the future to address renewable energy intermittencies.
- In terms of mobility, Green Hydrogen can be utilised in railways, huge ships, buses, and trucks, among other things, for long-distance mobilizations for either urban freight movement within cities and states or for people.
- Green hydrogen's uses include:
- Ammonia and methanol are examples of green chemicals that can be used directly in existing applications such as fertilisers, mobility, power, chemicals, and shipping.
- To acquire universal adoption, green hydrogen mixing of up to 10% may be used in CGD networks.
- Benefits:
- It's a low-carbon compound that can help decarbonize industries including iron and steel, chemicals, and transportation.
- Renewable energy that can't be stored or used by the grid can be funnelled into hydrogen production.
- What actions has the Indian government done to promote green hydrogen production:
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the commencement of the Hydrogen Energy Mission to manufacture hydrogen from renewable sources during her budget speech in February 2021.
- In the same month, the state-owned Indian Oil Corporation struck a deal with Greenstat Norway to establish a Hydrogen Centre of Excellence (CoE-H). It will support R&D projects between Norwegian and Indian R&D institutions/universities for the generation of green and blue hydrogen.
- India and the United States recently formed a task group under the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP) to mobilise funds and accelerate green energy development.
- Prelims Hot-Link:
- Green Hydrogen is a renewable energy source.
- What method is used to create it?
- Applications.
- Benefits.
- The Hydrogen Energy Mission is all about hydrogen energy.