Govt eyes 14 GWh battery storage system in Kutch
India is planning to set up a 14 GWh grid-scale battery storage system at Khavda in Gujarat, which is being developed as home to the world’s largest renewable energy park.
India is planning to set up a 14 GWh grid-scale battery storage system at Khavda in Gujarat, which is being developed as home to the world’s largest renewable energy park.
India plans to manufacture five million tonnes of green hydrogen to meet its climate targets and become a production and export hub for the fuel by 2030.
India is increasingly looking towards hydrogen as an alternative source of fuel to reduce its carbon footprint and meet its growing energy needs.
Delivering his Independence Day address from the Red Fort on 15 August 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally announced the launch of a National Hydrogen Mission to accelerate plans to generate the carbon-free fuel from renewables as he set a target for India to achieve self-reliance in energy by 2047.
The government announced a comprehensive green hydrogen and green ammonia policy aimed at boosting the domestic production of green hydrogen to 5 million tonnes through electrolysis of water by 2030.