India is planning to Collaborate with France on Green Hydrogen

Current Context: Recently a workshop has been organized on decarbonized hydrogen by France and the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) in India in which a joint declaration of intent has already been agreed upon between the two countries.

• Presently India has 158 GW of installed capacity for renewable energy and another 87 GW is in the pipeline. with the help of this collaboration, India can achieve its target.
• As green hydrogen holds immense promise as a clean energy vector of the future. Both the countries can team up on green hydrogen to accelerate the clean energy transition, and meet carbon neutrality targets.
• France is a co-founder International solar alliance and also set up a cooperation roadmap between relevant ministries on renewable energy.
• They were also investing enormously in clean energy in India and are in the process of developing more than 24 GW of renewable energy projects in the country.
• Now both countries are working on decarbonized hydrogen so that it can apply to many sectors of the economy like refinery, fertilizers, petrochemicals, steel, heavy mobility, shipping, and aviation.

Question:

Q.1 India and which among the following European country planning to collaborate on Green Hydrogen?
a. Germany
b. France
c. USA
d. Australia