Categories: News

India’s largest and first green hydrogen project to be set up in Vizag

Representative Image

CHENNAI: National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Limited has awarded the first and largest green hydrogen microgrid project of India to the Simhadri plant in Andhra Pradesh. The project has come up at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to become carbon-free by 2070.

The project will expectedly help with large scale hydrogen storage and in deploying various microgrids in several strategic locations of India. The press release said that the hydrogen would be produced using an advanced 240 kW (kiloWatt) Solid Oxide Electrolyser by taking input power from the nearby Floating Solar Project. The release further added that the project would open avenues for decarbonising the far-off regions of India such as Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, etc.

Team Urban Update

Recent Posts

BMC publishes list of dilapidated buildings ahead of monsoon

Representative Image MUMBAI, Maharashtra: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has published a list of 188…

20 hours ago

Chennai Corporation to penalise unregistered pets

Representative Image CHENNAI, Tamil Nadu: The Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation is mulling the plan to…

23 hours ago

Faulty streetlight renders Kollidam Bridge unsafe for pedestrians

Representative Image TRICHIRAPALLI, Tamil Nadu: Faulty Streetlights on the newly built Kollidam Bridge in Trichy…

2 days ago

SC seeks action against DDA for felling trees illegally

Representative Image NEW DELHI: The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) framed by the Supreme Court (SC)…

3 days ago

CMC installs green shade at key junctions to give respite to motorists from blazing Sun

Representative Image COIMBATORE, Tamil Nadu: The Coimbatore Municipal Corporation (CMC) has installed green shade nets…

4 days ago

Chennai, Avadi to get drinking water from Thiruninravur Lake

Representative Image CHENNAI, Tamil Nadu: The Water Resource Department in the southern state of Tamil…

4 days ago