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India’s largest integrated energy company, NTPC Ltd., signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Japan and its subsidiary Mitsubishi Power India Private Limited to demonstrate the feasibility for Hydrogen co-firing blended with natural gas in MHI 701D gas turbines installed at NTPC Auraiya Gas Power Plant in Uttar Pradesh. The total installed capacity of the Auraiya Gas Power Plant is 663 MW with four gas turbines operating in combined cycle mode. The MoU was signed by both companies in the presence of Shri Ujjwal Kanti Bhattacharya, Director (Projects), NTPC Ltd., Mr. Tatsuto Nagayasu, CMD, Mitsubishi Power India and Mr. Hiroyuki Shinohara, Vice President, Mitsubishi Power India.

KATHMANDU: Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Pampha Bhusal has said that the government’s goal is to develop water resources into hydropower and use them to produce hydrogen energy, ammonia and urea fertilizers.

• The hydrogen sector will become a major contributor to Oman’s GDP and external balances by 2030.

The Sultanate of Oman has a long pipeline of green hydrogen projects and the clearest strategy in the GCC for the industry’s development, according to a report of Oxford Analytica, an independent geopolitical analysis and advisory firm drawing on a worldwide network of experts.

Türkiye is working to develop its indigenous hydrogen ecosystem and local hydrogen industry, Energy Minister Fatih Dönmez has said, adding that studies are also underway for hydrogen fuel.

• The institute at Surathkal, while appealing for funding, intends to develop a Steam Biogas Reformer unit to extract hydrogen from biogas.

The National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NIT-K), Surathkal, has initiated a pilot project to produce hydrogen, the future energy, from biogas.

• The region attracted 15 percent of global hydrogen infrastructure investments – Hydrogen Council report.

The Middle East has attracted 15 percent of the global hydrogen infrastructure investments of $24 billion announced through 2030, the third largest globally. Asia-Pacific region has attracted half the total and Europe a quarter, according to a report by the Hydrogen Council.