National Green Hydrogen Mission

Hydrogen fuelled long-haul automobiles and marine vessels can enable decarbonisation of the mobility sector. Green Hydrogen can be particularly useful as a versatile energy carrier for meeting energy requirements of remote geographies, including islands, in a sustainable manner. Despite the unique possibilities and advantages, unfavourable cost economics, lack of harmonized standards and regulations, supply challenges, and costly enabling infrastructure have thus far held back the replacement of fossil fuels and fossil fuel-based feedstock with Green Hydrogen or its derivatives. However, recent trends and analysis indicate that, driven by technology advancements, reduction in costs of renewable energy and electrolysers, and aggressive national strategies by some of the major economies, Green Hydrogen is likely to become cost-competitive in applications across industry, mobility and other sectors within a short span. The Green Hydrogen pathway can be a key enabler for India’s aspirations of building a low-carbon and self-reliant economy. The National Green Hydrogen Mission aims to scale up Green Hydrogen production and utilization across multiple sectors and align with global trends in technology, applications, policy and regulation. The overarching objective of the Mission is to make India the Global Hub for production, usage and export of Green Hydrogen and its derivatives. This will contribute to India’s aim to become Aatmanirbhar (self-reliant) through clean energy and serve as an inspiration for the global Clean Energy Transition.