GAIL to set up one of India’s largest PEM-based Green Hydrogen project

According to the Nationwide Hydrogen Mission, GAIL (India) Limited has awarded a contract to arrange one of many largest Proton Alternate Membrane (PEM) Electrolyser in India. The undertaking can be put in at GAIL’s Vijaipur Complicated, in Guna District of Madhya Pradesh, and can be primarily based on renewable energy.

The Venture has been designed to provide round 4.3 Metric Tons of Hydrogen per day (approx. 10 MW capability) with a purity of about 99.999 Quantity %. It’s scheduled to be commissioned by November 2023. According to the imaginative and prescient of Atmanirbhar Bharat, the undertaking has been awarded to a vendor having home worth addition of greater than 50 per cent.

Earlier, in January this 12 months, GAIL had commenced India’s first-of-it’s-kind undertaking of blending Hydrogen into Pure Fuel system. Hydrogen blended Pure Fuel is being equipped to one in every of GAIL’s Joint Enterprise (JV) firm with HPCL- Avantika Fuel Restricted· (AGL), which is a Metropolis Fuel Distribution (CGD) firm working in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Until date, GAIL has been profitable in mixing upto 2% (v/v) hydrogen in pure fuel within the CGD community.

These initiatives mirror GAil’s dedication to assist a gas-based financial system and to contribute in the direction of India’s imaginative and prescient of a greener, cleaner, carbon-neutral and self-reliant future.

At round 11:06 AM, GAIL (India) was buying and selling at Rs150.45 apiece up by Rs0.2 or 0.13% from its earlier closing of Rs150.25 apiece on the BSE.