​1.5 Gw electrolyser projects: Centre fleshes out details of 1st H2 mission

The base incentive will start from Rs. 4,440 per kilowatt and gradually decrease every year. The incentive period will be five years

The first phase of the National Hydrogen Mission will see the setting up of 1.5 gigawatt (Gw) of electrolyser manufacturing, with 0.3 Gw of indigenous capacity, the government announced on Wednesday. 

The Union Ministry of New & Renewable Energy on Wednesday published the contours of the Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT).

SIGHT is one of the four components of the Green Hydrogen Mission. 

The bids in the first tranche will be called for 1.5 Gw of electrolyser manufacturing and will follow the ‘bucket-fill’ method. Of this, 1.2 Gw can employ any global technology; the balance indigenous.  

The base