India to spend $200 million over next 5-7 years to promote hydrogen use
Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said at the online conference the government planned to scale up use of hydrogen blended with compressed natural gas (H-CNG) as a transportation fuel
Reuters | April 16, 2021 | Updated 13:34 IST
India will spend $200 million over the next five to seven years to promote the use of hydrogen, Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi, the top bureaucrat at India s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, said at a virtual industry event on Thursday.
India has asked its state-run oil and gas companies to set up seven hydrogen pilot plants by the end of this financial year, India s oil secretary Tarun Kapoor also said at the Hydrogen Economy - New Delhi Dialogue event.