{"id":455876,"date":"2021-12-14T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T05:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455876"},"modified":"2021-12-14T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T05:35:38","slug":"bpcl-tie-up-with-nuclear-institute-in-net-zero-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bpcl-tie-up-with-nuclear-institute-in-net-zero-push\/","title":{"rendered":"BPCL tie-up with nuclear institute in net zero push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s third largest refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp said on Monday it has tied up with the country&#8217;s nuclear research institute for an electrolyser technology for green hydrogen as it seeks to achieve net zero emissions by 2040.<br \/>\nIndia, the world&#8217;s third biggest greenhouse gas emitter, is aiming to reach net zero emissions by 2070 and wants to raise the share of renewables in its energy mix to 50% by 2030 from 38% currently.<br \/>\nBPCL&#8217;s chairman AK Singh said the refiner plans to scale up indigenous alkaline electrolyser technology for use in refineries via collaboration with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.<br \/>\nAn electrolyser splits water into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity. For green hydrogen, renewable energy is used for electrolysis. At present Indian companies import electrolyser plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s third largest refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp said on Monday it has tied up with the country&#8217;s nuclear research institute for an electrolyser technology for green hydrogen as it seeks to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. India, the world&#8217;s third biggest greenhouse gas emitter, is aiming to reach net zero emissions by 2070 and wants to raise the share of renewables in its energy mix to 50% by 2030 from 38% currently. BPCL&#8217;s chairman AK Singh said the refiner plans to scale up indigenous alkaline electrolyser technology for use in refineries via collaboration with the Bhabha Atomic [&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-455876","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\/455876","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=455876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}