Overview

• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the plant on August 17, marking the state’s first and the country’s second green hydrogen facility.
• The project has an annual production capacity of 72,000 tonnes and uses a 2 MW renewable‐energy electrolyser to generate zero-emissions hydrogen.
• Torrent Group plans to blend the hydrogen at concentrations of up to 2 percent into its existing city gas distribution network serving households, CNG stations and industries.
• Company statements describe this as India’s largest green hydrogen and natural gas blending project in the city gas distribution sector, building on earlier small-scale pilots.
• The plant advances Uttar Pradesh’s target of 1 million tonnes per annum under its Green Hydrogen Policy and supports the National Green Hydrogen Mission.