Chandigarh: The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, to set up a pioneer pilot demonstration project for the production of green hydrogen from biomass, particularly paddy straw.
An official statement said on Tuesday that the MoU, which was signed by chief executive officer (CEO) PEDA Neelima and the Registrar of IISc Bangalore, was formally exchanged between Neelima and Prof. S. Dasappa of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER), IISc in the presence of minister of state for new and renewable energy and power (GoI) Shripad Naik, during the 5th International Conference on Recent Advance in Bio-Energy Research held at Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy