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U.P. Green Hydrogen Policy, 2024, aims at production, storage, transport, and offtake. Green means hydrogen from renewable electricity, not from fossil steam reforming. State levers are land, stamp duty, electricity-duty exemption, and single-window clearance. SGST-linked industrial support may apply where the unit qualifies. No invented crore grant is used here; plants will test the policy.
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Introduction
The Uttar Pradesh Green Hydrogen Policy, 2024, tries to put the state on the national green-hydrogen map. Aims are production, storage, transport, and offtake in fertilizer, mobility, and industry. Incentives are land, duty relief, and facilitation — stated here as policy tools, not as invented crore grants.
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Aims and objectives
- Produce green hydrogen from renewable electricity so that U.P. is a maker, not only a user of grey hydrogen in fertilizer and refinery streams.
- Encourage electrolyser plants, storage, and pipelines or tanker movement inside industrial belts and along energy corridors.
- Create offtake in fertilizer, city-bus or truck pilots, and hard-to-abate industry, without which production has no buyer.
- Use the policy as a climate and investment signal together with solar, biomass, and the Green Star direction of later years.
- Build skills and safety codes for a fuel that is new to most U.P. industrial estates.
Government incentives
- Land facilitation in industrial parks and corridors, including allotment support so that a plant is not hunting plots for years.
- Stamp-duty relief on eligible land transactions for green-hydrogen and allied units.
- Electricity-duty exemption on renewable power used for electrolysis, which is the main running-cost lever the state actually holds.
- Other fiscal facilitation in the industrial-policy family, such as SGST-linked support where the unit qualifies, without treating every brochure number as a statute.
- Single-window clearances through Nivesh Mitra and Invest U.P. so that pollution, power, and factory licences move as one file.
- Transmission and wheeling facilitation for renewable power, subject to regulator rules, because hydrogen is only green if the electron is green.
Caution
- Green hydrogen is costly without cheap round-the-clock renewable power and a real offtaker.
- The 2024 policy is an invitation. Plants, not press notes, will show whether U.P. becomes a hub.
Flow diagram
flowchart TD RE[Renewable power] --> EL[Electrolyser] EL --> GH[Green hydrogen] P[Policy 2024] --> L[Land stamp electricity duty] L --> EL GH --> O[Fertilizer mobility industry]
Conclusion
The 2024 Green Hydrogen Policy aims at production, storage, movement, and offtake in U.P., with land, stamp duty, electricity-duty, and single-window incentives. It does not need invented crore figures to be stated. Success is cheap green power plus a fertilizer or industry buyer.
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