Amara Raja Infra commissions India’s 1st green hydrogen fuelling station in Leh for NTPC

HYDERABAD: Amara Raja Infra, which is part of the $2 billion Amara Raja Group, on Monday said it has completed the setting up of India’s first green hydrogen fuelling station in Leh, Ladakh, for NTPC Ltd.
The fuelling station, which has a capacity to produce 80kg per day of green hydrogen and was completed in two years, is located at a height of 3,400 meters above sea level with temperatures varying between -25°Celsius to 30°Celsius.
With the completion of the project, NTPC will operationalise five hydrogen fuel cell buses in the region. The project will enable emission-free transport in and around Leh, making India among the few countries to take a lead in the green mobility space.
The scope of the project included designing, engineering, supplying, construction, erection, testing, and commissioning of the hydrogen station. It also includes three years of operation and maintenance works of all systems on turnkey basis.
Dwarakanadha Reddy, business head (power EPC), ARIPL, said: “The completion of this challenging project has reaffirmed our EPC expertise, and we are very excited that we were the first player to enter the green hydrogen infrastructure space.”
Amara Raja Group said the project would serve as a precursor to large-scale green hydrogen mobility and storage projects that would come up In India as part of the National Hydrogen Energy Mission. It will also be useful for studying and deploying multiple hydrogen fuelling stations across the country.