India is placing a big bet on green hydrogen to transition away from fossil fuels. Recently, the ministry of power took the first step with the notification of a policy on green hydrogen using renewable sources of energy. One of the major highlights is a waiver of the central inter-state transmission charges for a period of 25 years for green hydrogen production projects commissioned before June 30, 2025. The cost of power constitutes anywhere between 50% and 70% of the total cost of green hydrogen depending on the location of production and the source of renewable energy, whether wind or solar. The open-access charge in turn is a significant portion of the cost of power. According to analysis by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), the cost of green hydrogen production could drop by 17% in a state such as Uttar Pradesh (UP) due to the waiving of the central transmission charges for states importing renewable power. However, if India were to become a global leader in green hydrogen, production costs would need to fall further and the following steps would help meet this objective.<\/p>\n
First, states should either reduce or eliminate intra-state transmission charges as a top-up to the central policy. This would not only reduce the hydrogen production costs but also bring down the significant disparity in intra-state transmission charges between states. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India is placing a big bet on green hydrogen to transition away from fossil fuels. Recently, the ministry of power took the first step with the notification of a policy on green hydrogen using renewable sources of energy. One of the major highlights is a waiver of the central inter-state transmission charges for a period of 25 years for green hydrogen production projects commissioned before June 30, 2025. The cost of power constitutes anywhere between 50% and 70% of the total cost of green hydrogen depending on the location of production and the source of renewable energy, whether wind or […]<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469945","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=469945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}