In a first for the country’s only city gas distribution (CGD) player from the cooperative sector, Charotar Gas is developing a solar energy-based green hydrogen project with support from incubation agency iCreate under the Government of India’s Hydrogen Valley Project.

The Rs 18-crore green hydrogen facility will come up at Kanajari village in Anand district of Gujarat. Apart from iCreate, the CGD company has roped in Sardar Patel University for providing guidance in the project, which includes setting up generation, storage, transportation and retailing infrastructure for green hydrogen. Its model retail outlet will come up in Vallabh Vidyanagar shortly.

The project will be commissioned in the next one to 1.5 years.

In expansion mode, the cooperative has added 14 villages to its PNG network, and plans to add a few more villages and four CNG stations in the next 1-1.5 years to reach a tally of 16 CNG stations.

Charotar Gas had participated in the first consultation meeting of the Hydrogen Valley Project held in Ahmedabad in April 2023.