Green Hydrogen Mobility Project
- NTPC, Maharatna PSU under Ministry of Power has signed an MoU with UT of Ladakh and LAHDC to set up the country’s first Green Hydrogen Mobility project.
- It will strengthen India’s vision to ensure a carbon-free economy based on renewable sources and green hydrogen.
- Also, there is the inauguration of NTPC’s first solar installations in Leh in form of solar trees and a solar car port.
Key points:
- Leh will become India's first city to implement a green hydrogen-based mobility project with zero emission.
- NTPC has planned to ply 5 hydrogen buses, to start with, in the region.
- The company will be setting up a solar plant and a green hydrogen generation unit in Leh towards this end.
- A solar tree is a structure where solar modules are planted on a single pillar, which looks like a tree trunk.
Green hydrogen gas:
- It is produced by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using an electrolyzer that may be powered by electricity generated from renewable energy sources.
Benefits:
- Reduce carbon footprint.
- Achieve zero-emission mobility
- Ensure a carbon-free economy
- Reduce the dependency on fossil fuel
- Reduce the burden of import of petroleum oil on the exchequer.
Application:
- Applications in sectors such as chemicals, iron, steel, fertilizer and refining, transport, heating, and power.
NTPC Ltd.
- It is a central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Power.
- It is India’s largest energy conglomerate with roots planted way back in 1975 to accelerate power development in India.
- It became a Maharatna company in May 2010.
- NTPC has recently revised its target of achieving 60GW renewables capacity by 2032, almost doubling the earlier target.
- Recently, NTPC has commissioned India’s largest floating solar project of 10MW at Vishakhapatnam.