‘India can emerge as refuelling destination for green ships’
New Delhi: The union minister for new and renewable energy RK Singh on Tuesday that India can become the refuelling destination for green ships run on green hydrogen. Addressing a conference on green hydrogen pilots in India organized by NTPC, the minister said that many green hydrogen pilots are going on in India and across the world. We have pilots for green steel and in heavy duty transportation and global shipping will go green within the next 10 years.
"We have to emerge as refuelling destination for all green ships, since we can provide them green hydrogen or green ammonia or whatever fuel they want at the lowest cost. We have to prepare bunkers at shipyards and also have pilots for green shipping on our own," he said, adding that the ministry of new and renewable energy is in talks with the ministry of shipping, to take the initiative forward. The minister also said that the roadmap for research and development (R&D) for the national green hydrogen mission is almost finalized and will be released shortly (the draft roadmap can be found here).
This will detail the various research areas required for development of green hydrogen ecosystem. “We have also worked on necessary regulations, codes and standards. We have sent the first set of recommendations to agencies like BIS, PESO and OISD, to adopt the relevant standards.
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