Paper Title
Green Hydrogen: Fuel for India’s Economy and Energy Transition

Abstract
This study highlights the growing primary energy needs of the Indian economy and India’s substantial energy dependence on imported crude oil to meet such requirements. This paper discusses the effects of India’s high energy imports on its strategic decision-making, on society, and on economy in terms of foreign exchange diversions. The issue of growing energy requirements becomes more complicated when India needs to balance its growth aspirations with sustainability goals, as outlined by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This study elaborates the limited role played by non-crude and non-coal-based energy sources in India’s existing energy basket. This paper delves into India’s geographical location’s advantage and abundant natural resources that can be leveraged to accomplish renewable energy as well as sustainability goals in future. The paper further discusses how green hydrogen is a highly suitable fuel for meeting India’s future energy and sustainability requirements. Paper links green hydrogen production to the renewable energy generation potential of India, to arrive at commercially and technically viability of green hydrogen in India. Having established a link between India’s renewable energy sources, and green hydrogen production, this study elaborates on the multiple roles that various stakeholders in India are required to play so as to gainfully convert these latent resources into primary energy sources, over the next five decades. Keywords - Green Hydrogen, Energy Transition, carbon neutrality, decarbonization, sustainability, renewable energy, green economy.