The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy will host an international conference on green hydrogen from July 5 to 7, 2023, in New Delhi. The goal is to bring together scientists and business leaders from around the world to talk about new developments and technologies in the entire green hydrogen value chain. Participants in the sector will discuss how the green hydrogen landscape is changing and how innovation is driving solutions in the sector at the meeting, the Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

The ministry said that in addition to domain-specific study interactions on hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and applications, the conference will also talk about green financing, improving the skills of human resources, and new business ideas in this area. It will give people a chance to share and learn from the best practices in the field from around the world.

Addressing a curtain raiser press conference on the international conference, the Secretary of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Bhupinder Singh Bhalla underlined the role of industry in various steps of the value chain, such as production, distribution, and storage. He said that the conference seeks to bring the best minds together to explore solutions for developing and strengthening the national green hydrogen ecosystem.

He further added that the green hydrogen ecosystem is important in order to attain the basic production target of the National Green Hydrogen Mission of producing 5 MMT of green hydrogen per annum by the year 2030. “Electrolyser production capacity in the world is very limited, this capacity has to come up in India. And for this, it is important that we learn and adopt the appropriate technology for electrolyser manufacturing as well as for various individual components of the manufacturing process. Through this process, we are creating a platform where experts can talk about various steps of the value chain so that we can learn from others; this would entail not only production, but also marketing and collaborations. Our focus is on the entire value chain which is important for the success of the National Green Hydrogen Mission,” he added.

Responding to a media query, Bhalla said that as per their last count, about 48 projects on green hydrogen / green ammonia have been publicly announced in India. “A lot of them are talking about green ammonia, which totals to the production of around 3.5 million metric tonnes per annum of green hydrogen. There is a lot of traction from the industry, as far as green hydrogen opportunity is concerned.”