The National Hydrogen Energy Road Map (NHERM) is a program in India initiated by the National Hydrogen Energy Board (NHEB) in 2003 and approved in 2006 for bridging the technological gaps in different areas of hydrogen energy, including its production, storage, transportation and delivery, applications, safety, codes and standards and capacity building for the period up to 2020.[1][2][3] The program is under direction of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).[4]
The project aims to reduce India's dependence on the import of petroleum products, promote the use of diverse, domestic, and sustainable new and renewable energy sources; to provide electricity to remote, far‐flung rural and other electricity deficient areas and promote use of hydrogen as a fuel for transport and power generation; to reduce carbon emissions from energy production and consumption, to increase reliability and efficiency of electricity generation; to generate 1000 MW electricity using fuel cells by 2020 and 1 Million vehicles running on Hydrogen based IC Engines and fuel cells by 2020.[5]
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edit- ^ June 2007 – India-National Hydrogen Energy Road Map
- ^ June 2008 – Pathway to the Transition to the Hydrogen Energy Economy in India
- ^ 2007 – Path Way for Transition to Hydrogen Energy for India
- ^ "Ministry of New and Renewable Energy – Hydrogen Energy". Mnre.gov.in. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Carbon Neutral Fuels and Chemicals from Standalone Biomass Refineries" (PDF). Retrieved 3 December 2023.