Green hydrogen becoming 'mainstream narrative' in India

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Green hydrogen becoming ‘mainstream narrative’ in India

Dominic Ellis | H2-View | Feb 12, 2025

For the second day at India Energy Week 2025, Shri Hardeep Puri, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, talked up the country’s green hydrogen potential.

Reiterating comments he made at the opening ceremony yesterday, that the five million tonnes green hydrogen production target by 2030 is “very conservative”, he outlined the rapid growth in the industry since the National Hydrogen Mission was announced three years ago.

With hydrogen buses in operation at the event, Puri was asked when they would be rolled out at scale.

“I don’t know the timeline, but it will be faster than I can imagine,” he said. “Look at the last three years and you can we have gone from ideas to practical implementation.”

The Minister said the hydrogen buses are the result of a collaboration between IOCL and Tata Motors.

In June 2021, Tata Motors won a tender from IOCL to provide 15 FCEV buses to evaluate the potential of hydrogen-based PEM fuel-cell technology in India...more
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[Ponietz]

1. NDTV is Indian state propaganda

From Wikipedia:

Acquisition of NDTV by the Adani group led by billionaire Gautam Adani, who has close ties to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, raised widespread negative reactions and criticism from prominent Western media outlets like The Guardian, The Washington Post and Bloomberg, among others.[99][100][101][102] The Economist stated that before the acquisition by the Adani group, the news channel was "critical of the government but is now supine."[2] The hostile takeover of NDTV by the Adani Group has raised concerns about the future of independent journalism in India. The Adani Group has a close relationship with the Indian government, and there are fears that it may use NDTV to promote its own interests. [103][104][105][106] The takeover attempt was also described to resemble the takeover of the largest news broadcaster Network18, that had occurred earlier under Mukesh Ambani, another billionaire with close ties to Narendra Modi.[107][108] The Delhi Union of Journalists released a statement raising concerns that two "oligarchs" were taking over independent news broadcasters and stifling critical journalism at the behest of the ruling establishment.[109] Presenter Ravish Kumar resigned from the channel in protest over what he called the new owner's lack of independence from the government.[110]

The takeover by Adani led to resignations by many prominent members of the channel. The list included journalists Ravish Kumar, Sreenivasan Jain, Nidhi Razdan and Sarah Jacob, channel's group president Suparna Singh, Chief Strategy Officer Arijit Chatterjee, Chief Technology and Product Officer Kawaljit Singh Bedi.[111][112][113]

Besides, “green” hydrogen is an oxymoron.

[NNadir]

2. The fossil fuel greenwashing ads here never stop

It's not really an oxymoron. It's an outright lie.

[Caribbeans]

3. "green" hydrogen is an oxymoron.

Keep saying that as the world proves it wrong, week by week. The US doesn't want hydrogen but most of Europe and almost ALL of Asia does. The naysayers, one by one, have lost this one. Just watch. Or don't, the rest of the world doesn't care a bit.

[Ponietz]

4. "Green" hydrogen trolls: "We don't need no stinkin laws of thermodynamics"