From Promise to Purchase: Unlocking India’s Green Hydrogen Demand

This report by RMI outlines strategies to bridge the gap between India's green hydrogen production targets and actual adoption, proposing five demand-side interventions to unlock between 2.1 and 5 million metric tons (MMT) of demand by 2030.

• India has a significant gap between its green hydrogen ambitions and actual implementation; while announced production capacity exceeds the 2030 target of 5 million metric tons (MMT) by more than 2.5 times, commissioned capacity was below 0.01 MMT as of 2024.
• The report identifies five specific strategies to unlock 2.1–5 MMT of green hydrogen demand by 2030: blending in high volume sectors (0.8–3.0 MMT), exporting green hydrogen and ammonia to early-adopter markets (0.75–1.1 MMT), green public procurement for steel (0.4–0.6 MMT), exporting green hydrogen-embedded products (0.1–0.2 MMT), and substitution in niche industries (0.04–0.07 MMT).
• Scaling the green hydrogen ecosystem requires several enablers, including sovereign guarantees, viability gap funding, the development of hydrogen hubs, risk-reducing offtake mechanisms, and alignment with global certification frameworks.

APA

RMI (2025). From Promise to Purchase: Unlocking India’s Green Hydrogen Demand. https://rmi.org/resources/from-promise-to-purchase/

Chicago

RMI. From Promise to Purchase: Unlocking India’s Green Hydrogen Demand. 2025. https://rmi.org/resources/from-promise-to-purchase/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{rmi2025from, author = {{RMI}}, title = {{From Promise to Purchase: Unlocking India’s Green Hydrogen Demand}}, institution = {RMI}, year = {2025}, month = jun, url = {https://rmi.org/resources/from-promise-to-purchase/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }