INDIA H2 ALLIANCE
- April 12, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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INDIA H2 ALLIANCE
Subject: Current Events
Context: Reliance, other energy majors form hydrogen coalition.
Concept:
- The Global energy and industrial majors have joined together to form a new coalition called the India H2 Alliance. The initiative to form the alliance was begun by the Reliance industries and Chart Industries.
- The IH2 alliance will mainly focus on industrial clusters such as refineries, steel, cement, fertiliser, ports and logistics and heavy-duty transport use cases. It will also create standards for storage and transport of hydrogen in pressurised and liquefied form.
The following are the main objectives of IH2A:
- To build hydrogen economy and supply chain in India
- To help develop blue and green hydrogen production and storage
- To build hydrogen-use industrial clusters
- To increase hydrogen-powered fuel cells-based transport
The India H2 Alliance will closely work with the Government of India on the following five areas:
- To develop National Hydrogen Policy and roadmap 2021-30.
- To create National H2 Task Force and Mission in a PPP model
- To identify National Large H2 Demonstration Stage Projects
- To create a National India H2 Fund
- To create a good hydrogen linked capacity.