Amara Raja Infra commissions India’s first Green Hydrogen fuelling station for NTPC

Amara Raja Infra, part of the $2 billion Amara Raja Group, has completed setting up India’s first green hydrogen fuelling station in Leh, Ladakh for NTPC Ltd.

The landmark project will enable emission-free transport in and around Leh – making India among the few countries to take the lead in the green mobility space. The green hydrogen fuelling station was executed by Amara Raja for NTPC and was inaugurated by Union Power Minister and Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Manohar Lal.

With the completion of the project, NTPC will currently operationalise 5 hydrogen fuel cell buses in the region. The scope of the project includes designing, engineering, supplying, construction, erection, testing, and commissioning the hydrogen station. Additionally, it includes 3 years of operation and maintenance works of all systems on a turnkey basis.

“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" said Dwarakanadha Reddy, Business Head (Power EPC), ARIPL.

The fuelling station project with a capacity of producing GH2 of 80kg per day was completed in two years, at extreme conditions at a height of 3,400 meters above sea level with temperatures varying between -25°Celsius to 30°Celsius. 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. Further, it will be useful for studying and deploying multiple hydrogen fuelling stations across the country.