Impacts of Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen Policies on Uttar Pradesh’s Power Sector Future: Additional Modeling Scenarios to Explore Hydrogen Flexibility

Summary

This NREL report models the impacts of Uttar Pradesh's (India) 2024 approved green hydrogen policy on its power sector. The policy targets 1.3 MMT and 62 TWh of green hydrogen production by 2030, increasing to 3.0 MMT and 143 TWh by 2050. The study examines scenarios combining electricity imports with co-located renewables, finding that spatial flexibility in green hydrogen production can reduce total installed capacity by 59% and system costs by 39% by 2050. Temporal flexibility, aligning production with renewable generation, can achieve even greater reductions of 73% in installed capacity and 55% in system costs by 2050, though it may necessitate imports of ~200 TWh (30% of demand) by 2050.

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