Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 18:
The second meeting of the National Hydrogen Energy Board was held on September at New Delhi.
The meeting was organized under the aegis of Union Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources.
In his opening remarks, Union Minister of Non-Conventional Energy Sources and Board chairman Vilas Muttemwar said that India with its strong technological and scientific base should be in the forefront of the movement towards the new Hydrogen energy economy.
We have an advanced industrial infrastructure.
We have a vigorous renewable energy movement already underway in the country, which when combined with Hydrogen and fuel cells technologies would results in a sustainable energy pathway for building the India of the 21st century, the Minister said.
He recalled that PM Dr Manmohan Singh in his recent address on the occasion of the Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Diwas has specially called for accelerating the development and deployment of new frontier technologies like Hydrogen and fuel cells which would be the base of the new sustainable energy economy.
The Minister stressed on the need for coordinate efforts to ensure that commercially viable hydrogen energy technologies are produced and made available to the common people.
The challenge before us is to make the Hydrogen energy technologies sustainable, convenient, efficient, safe and affordable, he observed.
On the activities of the of the National Hydro Energy Board towards realization of the new vision, Muttemwar said that the Board is bringing together industry and Govt and the different concerned stake-holders in this programme to prepare a National Hydro Energy Road Map and implement the same by tackling various scientific technological, engineering and socio-economic issues on different aspects of Hydrogen energy.
It may be noted here that the first meeting of the Board was held on February 23 last and the meeting outlined the Vision for Hydrogen Energy for the future.
The meeting called upon the scientists and industry leaders to work toward giving a concrete shape to that Vision.
He further said that a number of initiatives have been undertaken after the first meeting of the Board.