{"id":496712,"date":"2022-06-07T09:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T03:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=496712"},"modified":"2022-06-07T09:54:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T04:24:29","slug":"with-green-hydrogen-priced-at-1-a-kg-india-hopes-to-spur-clean-energy-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/with-green-hydrogen-priced-at-1-a-kg-india-hopes-to-spur-clean-energy-use\/","title":{"rendered":"With green hydrogen priced at $1 a kg, India hopes to spur clean energy use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to slash the production costs of green hydrogen to $1 a kilogram from $5-$6 currently to encourage industries to use cleaner energy and wants access to cheaper loans to hep fund that transition, a senior government official said. <\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s third-largest carbon emitter put out a roadmap in February to become a hub for the production and export of green hydrogen &#8212; made from water and renewable electricity, though the fuel is a long way from being commercially viable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless cheap finance is available to be able to rapidly enhance both renewable and non-renewable, this transition will be difficult to speed up for a long period of time,\u201d said Amitabh Kant, chief executive officer of the government\u2019s think tank Niti Aayog, in an interview with Bloomberg Television. \u201cFinances at low costs are critical.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to slash the production costs of green hydrogen to $1 a kilogram from $5-$6 currently to encourage industries to use cleaner energy and wants access to cheaper loans to hep fund that transition, a senior government official said. The world\u2019s third-largest carbon emitter put out a roadmap in February to become a hub for the production and export of green hydrogen &#8212; made from water and renewable electricity, though the fuel is a long way from being commercially viable. \u201cUnless cheap finance is available to be able to rapidly enhance both renewable and non-renewable, this transition will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496712","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}