MC Exclusive | Road ministry to seek incentives for hydrogen filling stations: Gadkari
Road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari will urge heavy industries minister Mahendra Nath Pandey to come up with a production-linked scheme to set up hydrogen filling stations in the country.
“India needs to set up hydrogen filling stations across the country to make it easier for people to use vehicles powered by biofuels and hydrogen. I will soon speak to Mahendra Nath Pandey to look at a PLI to set up hydrogen filling stations,” Gadkari told Moneycontrol in an interview.
In March 2022, Gadkari travelled to Parliament in a hydrogen-based fuel cell electric vehicle. He said the objective was to spread awareness about hydrogen-based technology for vehicles.
India currently has only two hydrogen refuelling stations one each at Indian Oil’s R&D Centre, Faridabad and National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurugram. NTPC is going to start the operations of India’s first public green hydrogen fuelling station by December in Ladakh, which will be used to supply fuel to five hydrogen fuel cell buses.
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