Upendra Tripathy Joins India Hydrogen Alliance as Honorary Global Advisor
Upendra Tripathy will be advising the industry and all hydrogen stakeholders on demand aggregation, hydrogen price discovery and support to replicate the success of the National Solar Mission in the hydrogen eco-system in India.
April 22, 2025. By News Bureau
Upendra Tripathy will be advising the industry and all hydrogen stakeholders on demand aggregation, hydrogen price discovery and support to replicate the success of the National Solar Mission in the hydrogen eco-system in India.
Upendra Tripathy, a recipient of Indian Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration, was the former and Founding Director General of International Solar Alliance. Prior to that, he was Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (2014-2016) where he helped articulate the national Renewable Energy (RE) target of 175 GW RE by 2022, and headed the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) as Chairperson, in an ex-officio capacity, helping transformed SECI from a loss making undertaking to a surplus generating PSU.
He was also been the Chairperson of National Institute of Solar Energy, National Institute of Wind Energy, National Institute of Bio Energy and Association of Renewable Energy Agencies of States (AREAS), and coordinated implementation of India's Green Energy Corridor. He is an Adjunct Professor at NIAS (National Institute of Advanced Studies).
Upendra Tripathy is volunteering his over 42 years of policy making and implementation experience, as Honorary Advisor for IH2A towards helping build the green hydrogen economy in India, working with industry operating across the hydrogen value chain, multilateral agencies, think tanks, technical agencies and state government agencies.
Upendra Tripathy, Honorary Global Advisor to IH2A and former Director General, International Solar Alliance (ISA), said, “I am looking forward to working as honorary global advisor to the industry to commercialize green hydrogen by replicating the learnings from the National Solar Mission. India’s green hydrogen mission is a unique opportunity. The national ambitions of 5 MTPA green hydrogen by 2030, 125 GW of Renewable Energy for Green Hydrogen, over INR 800,000 crores investments announced, potential to create 600,000 new hydrogen economy jobs and 50 MTPA of carbon abatement, that is expected in the next 5-6 years is a sign of the transformation that the hydrogen transition is expected to achieve. For India, this is well begun and half done.”
Amrit Singh Deo, IH2A Secretariat lead, said, “We are honoured to have Shri Upendra Tripathy onboard as Honorary Global Advisor and will work closely to ensure India is able to replicate the success of the National Solar Mission in Green Hydrogen. We have started to see early captive industrial green hydrogen projects being commissioned in India. This is real progress from a project development standpoint. We are confident that India will see having more green hydrogen projects move to Financial Investment Decision (FID) stage and look forward to working closely with Shri Upendra Tripathy to enable this.”
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