Green Hydrogen is crucial to achieve clean energy targets: Mandaviya

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that Energy is a critical requirement of our country and the Green Hydrogen mission is a crucial part of it.

“We need to grow in the research and production sector and innovate in the development and manufacturing of green hydrogen,” he said while addressing a two-day seminar being organized on the subject ‘Production and use of Green Hydrogen and Green Ammonia in Process Industry.

He said that only the government alone can’t achieve the target of green energy. Industries-Academia-Government synergy is very important to achieve the goal of the National Hydrogen Mission.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech from the rampart of Red Fort had announced a National Hydrogen Mission for the country.

The Mission aims to aid the government in meeting its climate targets and making India a green hydrogen hub.

“We have a huge geographical advantage in terms of varied weather systems and topographies to make the green energy mission true. Focussing on the futuristic planning, this year, we are celebrating Amrut Kaal and preparing a roadmap for the next 25 years to achieve this target” he said.

Dr Mansukh Mandaviya also urged everyone to work towards making the manufacturing of Green Hydrogen affordable and accessible not only to our country but to the world, with the Nation First attitude.

“We can achieve the target of increasing solar energy efficiency and reducing the cost of it and can become the Vishwa Guru. We must take inspiration from our rich past, which shows how technologically advanced we were. We never lacked the human resource capacity and brain. We can again show this to the world”, he added.

“World is looking towards us for our green hydrogen policy and we will soon launch the document with production, heavy transport logistics industries and shipping details. Our aim is to achieve 500 Gigawatt production target capacity of non-fossil fuel by 2030”, he added.

Mr. K.S. Raju Chairman, Fertiliser Association of India, Delhi, Dr. S. Nand Chairman, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (Northern Regional Centre), Prof. AK Ganguly, Officiating Director of IIT Delhi, faculty of IIT Delhi were also present on the occasion.