Green-hydrogen - the game changer of India’s journey towards energy sustainability: A socio-legal study

Abstract

The global troth to provide sustainable and eco-friendly energy to all by 2030 has set off various pilot study for contriving the clean-technologies across the globe and the intellectual acuity coalesced into that green-hydrogen is the potential and promising alternative for achieving the adequate and attainable global energy demand. To mitigate the accelerated ambition of climate goals, India has triggered energy transition programme in pursuant to its National Green Hydrogen Mission, with an outlay for INR. 19,744 crores, to achieve net zero by 2070 and self- dependent on energy by 2047. To substantiate the research object present study has primarily undertaken analytical comparative review the policies of the jurisdictions pioneering on green hydrogen and to examine the feasibility of strategic transitional move under reference of socio- demographic factors of India for achieving energy sovereignty. This research is the fulcrum to design the mitigating policy framework, making review and multivariate analysis of the sustainable livelihoods, investment opportunities, interoperability mechanisms, local contexts within India’s policy framework through Semi-Structured Qualitative Methodology. The present study shall significantly contribute the policy implications in the existing literature on green hydrogen and conclude with the viable model for achieving the energy sovereignty in India. The fundamental challenges regarding such transitional expansion of green-hydrogen across the globe are the production, scaling up of consumption habits across all sectors, policies, and regulations. The limitation of the present study underlies in procuring primary data as all data confidentiality is respected under data protection laws in India.