New Delhi: State-owned power producer NTPC Ltd is planning to commission the country’s first Green Hydrogen fueling station in Ladakh next month, Chairman and Managing Director Gurdeep Singh said.
“This project will prove to be very useful as a pilot and we plan to make this pilot functional in month. Incidentally, we lost some time due to recent heavy rains and the damage to the road infrastructure,” Singh said, speaking at an event here.
The project will produce 80 Kg per day of 99.97 %pure Hydrogen that will be compressed, stored and dispensed. The company plans to ply five Hydrogen fuel cell buses in the region.
“Our Hydrogen bus is already there and that bus is gong to be running on hydrogen fuel, making it a Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV). This Green Hydrogen will be produced from the solar power set up in Leh itself,” Singh said.
He also said the government has brought in the National Hydrogen policy which is paving the way for the future development of this fuel. Hydrogen is the fuel of the future and Green Hydrogen is the real option as it has the potential to become the main fuel in the next decade, and the ministry has been taking pioneering steps in that direction, Singh said.
“We at NTPC realised around three years back that Hydrogen is going to be very important for the transition and for NTPC as a business opportunity. We have commissioned our first Green Hydrogen pilot in our own township where Green Hydrogen is being generated using renewable energy from floating solar and it is being injected into the Piped Natural Gas network which is being utilised in the township,” he said.
Singh also said the company is taking up another very ambitious Hydrogen pilot project in Vindhyachal where it is producing 10 tonne per day production of green methanol. He said that project is already in an advanced stage of commissiong and is likely to be commissioned by 31 December.
