As part of its quest towards energy transition, the government recently brought together stakeholders from India and across the world, in order to explore how we can establish a Green Hydrogen ecosystem and foster a systemic approach for meeting the global goals for decarbonisation through Green Hydrogen. The three-day International Conference on Green Hydrogen (ICGH-2023), was organised during 5th – 7th July 2023 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi by the Government of India, was inaugurated by the Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy Shri R. K. Singh. The conference brought together global scientific, policy, academic and industrial leaders to discuss recent advances and emerging technologies in the entire green hydrogen value chain. The conference will enable the sector stakeholders to explore the evolving green hydrogen landscape and innovation-driven solutions in the sector, thus strengthening the sustainability ecosystem of the sector.
The conference was organised by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, in partnership with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Office of Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India and the Confederation of Indian Industry.
The fundamental aim of the Conference was to explore how we can establish a Green Hydrogen ecosystem and foster a systemic approach for meeting the global goals for decarbonisation through Green Hydrogen. Apart from domain-specific research interactions on hydrogen production, storage, distribution and downstream applications, the conference also discussed green financing, human resource upskilling and startup initiatives in this area. The conference enabled the stakeholders to share and learn from international best practices in the sector.
Various plenary talks, expert panel discussions and technical deliberations were held at the conference, that will provide domestic and international participants from the industry and research communities an opportunity to dive deep into these national and global priorities, in line with the objectives embedded in India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission, a Mission launched by the Government of India to help achieve India’s target of Net Zero by the year 2070.
The Union Minister for Power and New & Renewable Energy Shri R. K. Singh in his address said that there is now a global consensus that we need to make a transition to renewable energy. “India is one of the lowest carbon emitters in the world, our per capita emissions are about one third of global average. This stems out of our culture which emphasises simplicity, this culture is reflected in Mission LiFE as espoused by the Prime Minister.”
The Power Minister informed that India has over-delivered on its Nationally Determined Contributions target, having achieved 40% of non-fossil electricity target in 2021, 9 years before the target of 2030. “We have some world-leading programmes in emissions reduction, such as the programme for LEDs, which has resulted in reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 103 million tons per annum. Our Perform Achieve Trade Scheme has reduced emissions reductions of around 106 million tons per annum.”
The Minister informed that 42% of power generation capacity of India today is based on non-fossil-fuels and that we will overachieve the target of 50% capacity from non-fossil fuels by 2030. Various other dignitaries also provided their inputs during the conference.
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