• Hydrogen demand in India expected to increase fourfold by 2050: Report

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    Hydrogen demand in India expected to increase fourfold by 2050: Report

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    mso-themecolor:text1">Digital Desk: According to a report by NITI Aayog and the
    Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), the steel industry and heavy-duty
    transportation will account for 52 percent of India's projected four-fold rise
    in hydrogen demand by 2050. According to the survey, India is one of the most
    competitive producers of green hydrogen in the world due to its specific edge
    in producing low-cost renewable energy.



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    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">What is there beyond electricity? Green
    hydrogen is the solution, and it will fuel the green industrial revolution not
    just in India but around the world, according to NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant,
    who spoke at the report's unveiling on Wednesday. According to Kant, India's
    gas imports will rise as the need for hydrogen rises faster and faster. He
    continued by saying that green hydrogen must be introduced if India wants to
    decarbonize the industries that account for 83 percent of its energy use. Kant
    referred to the reduction of hydrogen's price as a challenge.



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    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">According to the survey, steel manufacturers,
    long-distance transportation, fertilisers, and the refinery industry use 17
    percent of the total energy consumed as electricity and 83 percent as coal,
    gas, and oil.



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    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">By 2030, the cost of green hydrogen will be
    equal to that of natural gas-based hydrogen, also known as grey hydrogen,
    according to the research "Harnessing Green Hydrogen: Opportunities for
    Deep Decarbonization in India." The analysis stated that the share of
    green hydrogen in this demand might increase from 16 percent in 2030 to roughly
    94 percent by 2050, just on the basis of price parity.



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    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">According to estimates, India's total market
    for green hydrogen will reach $8 billion by 2030 and $340 billion by 2050.
    According to the study, between 2030 and 2050, the use of green hydrogen might
    result in a 3.6 gigatonne reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.



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    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">The importance of concentrating on early
    pilots, cost reduction approaches, and local demand development was highlighted
    in the paper.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">India's levelized costs, or the prices at
    which the produced power should be sold, are among the lowest in the world, and
    it stands to gain more from the expansion of green hydrogen production than
    grey or blue hydrogen, according to the report.



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    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">According to the report, demand certainty
    brought about by advantageous policies might "provide the conditions for
    green hydrogen to ride the cost reduction curve and achieve scaled adoption in
    the long run." Due to the rising worldwide demand and the gap between the
    nations that produce and use hydrogen, it was predicted that trading in the gas
    will expand.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">The paper provided 10 doable actions for a
    national green hydrogen action plan. It proposes a thorough road map covering
    every facet of green hydrogen.

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