India’s Hydrogen Energy Roadmap

The nation hydrogen energy roadmap was laid in the year 2006 to provide blueprint for the long-term public and private efforts required for hydrogen energy development in the country.
The roadmap identifies technology gaps and challenges for introduction of hydrogen in large scale in different phase manner.
Major initiatives for hydrogen energy is for transportation and power generation

National hydrogen energy roadmap: Vision – 2020

Green initiative for future transport ( GIFT )	Green initiative for power generation ( GIP )
Cost of hydrogen at delivery point at Rs. 60 – 70. Hydrogen bulk storage methods and transport via pipeline to be in place	Hydrogen bulk storage methods and pipeline to be in place
Support infrastructure for hydrogen storage capacity and dispensing stations	Support infrastructure for large number of dispensing stations
Development of safety regulations, legislations, codes and 1000 MW hydrogen-based power generation capacity set up.	1000 MW hydrogen-based power generating capacity setup standards
1,000,000 hydrogen fueled vehicles on road – 50 MW small IC engine standalone generators	50 MW small IC engine standalone generators
50,000 two / three wheelers – 50 MW standalone fuel cell power packs	50 MW standalone fuel cell power packs
50,000 cars / taxis – 900 MW aggregate capacity centralized plants	900 MW aggregate capacity centralized plants
1100,000 buses and vans

The Mission Innovation (MI) was announced on 30^th November, 2015 involving 24 countries and European union.
The main objective of Mission Innovation is to dramatically accelerate global clean energy innovation – double government’s clean energy R & D investment over 5 years.
There are 8 innovation challenges under mission innovation, which are aimed towards encouraging greater private sector investment in transformative clean energy technology.
India is participating in IC 8 focusing on renewable and clean hydrogen.

The different activities will be organized under four streams

The DST (Department of Science & Technology) has launched “Hydrogen Valley Platform” which is developed to combine together several hydrogen applications in to integrated hydrogen ecosystem covering hydrogen production, storage, distribution and final use.
The objective of this platform to bring industry and policy makers together to exchange their ideas for entire hydrogen value chain.

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