{"id":410911,"date":"2021-04-16T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T05:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410911"},"modified":"2021-04-16T11:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T06:14:02","slug":"governments-hydrogen-mission-will-ride-on-cng-network-dharmendra-pradhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/governments-hydrogen-mission-will-ride-on-cng-network-dharmendra-pradhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Government&#8217;s hydrogen mission will ride on CNG network: Dharmendra Pradhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government intends to leverage its CNG (compressed natural gas) network to quickly build an ecosystem for using hydrogen as a new-age fuel as part of efforts to reduce dependence on oil and bring down the economy\u2019s carbon footprint.<br \/>\n\u201cEfforts are underway to leverage the vast CNG pipeline infrastructure to reduce the transportation cost of hydrogen,\u201d oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan told a global round table on \u2018Hydrogen Economy: New Delhi Dialogue-2021\u2019 here on Thursday.<br \/>\nCNG networks are being rolled out in 400 districts, which could provide the backbone for transporting hydrogen. \u201cFifty buses in Delhi are plying on hydrogen-blended CNG (H-CNG) on a pilot basis. We plan to scale it up in the coming months across the major cities of India,\u201d Pradhan said indicating the government\u2019s intent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government intends to leverage its CNG (compressed natural gas) network to quickly build an ecosystem for using hydrogen as a new-age fuel as part of efforts to reduce dependence on oil and bring down the economy\u2019s carbon footprint. \u201cEfforts are underway to leverage the vast CNG pipeline infrastructure to reduce the transportation cost of hydrogen,\u201d oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan told a global round table on \u2018Hydrogen Economy: New Delhi Dialogue-2021\u2019 here on Thursday. CNG networks are being rolled out in 400 districts, which could provide the backbone for transporting hydrogen. \u201cFifty buses in Delhi are plying on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}