China built the solar energy empire. India’s building the green hydrogen rebellion

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Despite the recent upheaval in clean tech efforts, governments around the world are investing billions into green hydrogen. Analysts are calling it the missing piece in the clean energy puzzle, especially for industries that can’t run just on batteries or solar power.

But the future of green hydrogen may not be decided in Silicon Valley or Europe or even China. It might come from a factory just outside Bengaluru where a little-known American startup called Ohmium is building sleek, modular machines, the size of a fridge. These are designed to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using nothing but renewable electricity.

Ohmium’s unique technology called PEM (proton exchange membrane) electrolysers—are compact, scalable, and fast becoming the system of choice for green hydrogen production.

But can India really lead the global green hydrogen race and will Ohmium be the company to take us there?

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