Visakhapatnam: India’s first and one of world’s largest Green Hydrogen Microgrid Projects will be set up at Simhadri near Visakhapatnam. The project configuration is designed in-house by NTPC, which is expected to open doors for decarbonising the far-off regions of the country like Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir, hitherto dependent on diesel generators,.
The NTPC has awarded the project of “Standalone Fuel-Cell based Micro-grid with hydrogen production using electrolyser in NTPC Guest House”, which would be a precursor to large scale hydrogen energy storage projects and would be useful for studying and deploying multiple microgrids in various off grid and strategic locations of the country.
The hydrogen would be produced using the advanced 240 kW Solid Oxide Electrolyser by taking input power from the nearby Floating Solar project. The hydrogen produced during sunshine hours would be stored at high pressure and would be electrified using a 50 kW Solid Oxide Fuel Cell. The system would work in standalone mode from 5PM in the evening to 7AM in the morning.
– global bihari bureau
