Thursday, November 25, 2021

Indian oil refiner, BPCL, will tender out for 20 MW of electrolysers

 Arun Kumar, Chairman of the Indian petroleum refiner, the government of India-owned  BPCL, has told the Economic Times newspaper that his company would soon issue a tender for 20 MW of electrolyser capacity. 

The electrolyser, which would be the biggest in India, twice as much as the recently-tendered by GAIL, will be put up at BPCL's Bina refinery in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.



Kumar has said that the company would soon after issues tenders for bigger capacities.

“We will not wait until long to float another tender for capacity expansion. As costs come down, we will seek more electrolysers, probably much bigger than this," Kumar has said. 

It is pertinent to mention that the refinery sector is one of the two sectors fro which the government intends to bring in a 'Green hydrogen purchase obligaiton' -- making it mandatory to buy green hydrogen. (The other sector is 'fertilizers'.)

Oil refiners have requested the government to impose an overall, company-wise purchase obligation, but not for each refinery unit, because some units have space constraints, Kumar said.

Another relevant point is that the goverment intends to sell its stake in BPCL, so as to privatize the company.


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