New Delhi, July 07: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh on Friday said that India has the potential to be a Green Hydrogen exporter.
Addressing the International Conference of Green Hydrogen 2023, Dr Jitendra said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the launch of the National Green Hydrogen Mission with a budgetary outlay of about 2.4 billion dollars and it reflects India’s firm resolve to address the difficult challenges of de-carbonization on our pathways toNet Zeroin 2070.
He pointed out the “painstaking efforts” undertaken over the last two years since the Prime Minister had announced India’s intention to create a dedicated mission for Green Hydrogen culminating in the announcement of the National Green Hydrogen Mission in January this year.
The minister said India has been at the forefront of the global narrative for fighting climate change and has done far more than what would be a commensurate response that would be called for on account of our historical or even our current per capita carbon emissions.
“India is uniquely poised to emerge as a prominent global leader in the production of Green Hydrogen not just on the basis of its abundant renewable energy resources and the benefits of one of the world’s lowest costs of regeneration, but also because of its R&D ecosystem and the framework designed for R&D in cross-cutting sectors of hydrogen production, transport, electrolyze manufacturing, support infrastructure, fuel cell EVs, storage and utilization,” he said.
As the Minister for Science and Technology, it is wonderful to see the positive synergy between the private sector and academic institutions, Dr Singh said, He hoped that this translates into effective collaboration in every field of research required in the expansion of possibilities of GreenHydrogen.
The union minister pointed out that Hydrogen Mission has great potential for job generation through the startup ecosystem as India has emerged as number three in the world with about one lakh startups and 100 odd Unicorns in various sectors including in cutting-edge science frontiers. Indian Startup system proposed to create a mechanism for harnessing proactive support of Banking Finances, he said.
Dr Jitendra said India will also leverage the inherent strengths and technological experience of institutions such as BARC, ISRO, CSIR, IITs, IISc and many more and expressed confidence that this will see some path-breaking research that will come out of the exercise and create huge multiplier effects on the domestic green hydrogen manufacturing sector in this decade and the next.
