India envisages a bright future for hydrogen in the next 15-20 years, supplementing natural gas via blending in the grid and in compressed natural gas for vehicles, the president of the Hydrogen Association of India said April 15. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Speaking at the virtual conference “Hydrogen Economy: New Delhi Dialogue – 2021,” R. K. Malhotra said India has already been experimenting with blending hydrogen into CNG, but that the current cost of the blend was higher than the unblended CNG, because “the cost to produce hydrogen is much higher than the cost of the natural gas.” He added that a limit of around 18% of hydrogen was blended in the CNG, leading to a drop in emissions. Malhotra said that eventually, India would be use fuel cells as well as hydrogen in vehicles, but the blending into […]