CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -NTPC starts India’s first green hydrogen blending operation in PNG network. New Delhi, January 04, 2023: Country’s largest power generator, NTPC Ltd commissions India’s first green hydrogen blending project. Green hydrogen blending has been started in the piped natural gas (PNG) network of NTPC Kawas township, Surat.

Detailed explanation-2: -NTPC REL signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Union Territory of Ladakh to set up the country’s first National Hydrogen Mobility Project in the region. The signing of the MoU was also marked with the inauguration of NTPC’s first solar installations in Leh in the form of solar trees and a solar carport.

Detailed explanation-3: -NTPC Ltd, India’s largest integrated energy company has awarded project of ‘Standalone Fuel-Cell based Micro-grid with hydrogen production using electrolyser’ at NTPC Simhadri (Andhra Pradesh). This will be India’s first Green Hydrogen-based energy storage project and one of world’s largest.

Detailed explanation-4: -UPSC Mains. Q. Which company has started India’s first project of mixing Hydrogen into Natural Gas System? Notes: Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has commenced India’s first-of-its-kind project of mixing Hydrogen into Natural gas system at Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Detailed explanation-5: -VISAKHAPATNAM: The NTPC-Simhadri plant in Vizag region will develop a project of standalone fuel cell based 50 kW microgrid pilot project with green hydrogen production using electrolyser. The project will be India’s first green hydrogen-based energy storage project.