On Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 2nd International Conference on Green Hydrogen and asked the global scientific community to suggest ways to shape policies for the green hydrogen sector.
PM Modi said, ‘I urge the global scientific community to come together to explore various aspects. Scientists and innovators can suggest changes in public policy to help the green hydrogen sector. We want to make India a global hub for the production, utilization and export of Green Hydrogen’.
He further said, ‘The world is going through a crucial transformation and there is a need to act towards the energy transition and sustainability. PM Modi said that India was the first among the G-20 Nations to fulfil the Paris commitments on green energy’.
‘These commitments were fulfilled nine years ahead of the target of 2030. India installed nonfinancial fossil fuel capacity increased by nearly 300 % in the last ten years. Our solar energy capacity increased by over three thousand per cent in the same period. But we are not resting on these acts. We remain focused on strengthening existing solutions’.
While talking about the benefit of green hydrogen, PM Modi said it could help in decarbonizing industries that are difficult to electrify, refineries, steel, heavy-duty transportation and many such sectors will benefit’.
PM Modi said, ‘India has already launched the National Green Hydrogen Mission which is giving an impetus to innovation, infrastructure, and investments. We are investing in cutting-edge, research and development. Part between industry and academia are being formed’.
Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri said that India has a natural advantage in producing Green Hydrogen due to the low cost and abundance of solar energy and investments in our power grid. Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi also addressed the summit and said that green hydrogen is a way forward to sustainability.
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