NTPC REL, a 100 percent subsidiary of NTPC, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Union Territory of Ladakh to set up the country's first green hydrogen mobility project in the region.
The signing of the MoU was also marked with the inauguration of NTPC's first solar installations in Leh in the form of solar trees and a solar carport.
The MoU will enable NTPC to help Ladakh develop a carbon-free economy based on renewable sources and green hydrogen.
NTPC has plans to ply five hydrogen buses, to start with, in the region and the company will be setting up a solar plant and a green hydrogen generation unit in Leh.
This will put Leh as the first city in the country to implement a green hydrogen-based mobility project.
NTPC has been aggressively pushing for greening its portfolio and the green hydrogen project is another step towards achieving a low carbon footprint. NTPC has also been promoting usage of green hydrogen-based solutions in sectors like mobility, energy, chemical, fertiliser, steel, etc.
NTPC has recently revised its target of achieving 60 GW renewables capacity by 2032, almost doubling the earlier target. Recently, it has commissioned India's largest floating solar project of 10 MW at Visakhapatnam.
