New Delhi: The Union ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) held a day-long workshop on “Quality Control in Green Hydrogen: Standards & Testing Infrastructure” in New Delhi on May 8 in its bid to promote ease of doing business (EoDB) for accelerating clean energy transition.
The workshop, which was held to deliberate the actions needed to create a homogeneous ecosystem for green hydrogen production processes through clear quality standards, also saw launching of a dedicated portal to give a push to the national green hydrogen mission.
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Participants at the meeting also discussed the steps to be taken to create a network of green hydrogen testing facilities, and for promoting EoDB to ensure faster adoption of clean energy transition and development of its network.
Officials of the MNRE said that the portal would serve as a one-stop location for information on the mission and steps taken for the development of the green hydrogen ecosystem in India. Principal scientific advisor to Government of India Ajay Kumar Sood and secretary, MNRE Bhupinder S Bhalla jointly unveiled the portal, which can be at https://nghm.mnre.gov.in/.
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A report on “green hydrogen standards and approval systems in India” (https://shorturl.at/cyUVW) and another one on “India’s Green Hydrogen Revolution” (https://shorturl.at/bgvHZ) were also released during the workshop.
Five panel discussions were held at the workshop, where experts from leading technical institutions, regulators and industry deliberated on the following issues pertaining to the green hydrogen ecosystem.
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Around 300 stakeholders from ministries, public sector undertakings, government agencies, industries, associations, research institutes, laboratories and academia attended the workshop, which deliberated on ‘green hydrogen ecosystem: Imperatives, challenges and way forward; standards in hydrogen storage’; ‘standards of electrolyser manufacturing & performance’; ‘standards for green hydrogen production plants & systems’ and ‘green hydrogen based applications’.
