Webinar – 18 September 2025
The Indo-German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC), in collaboration with the Indo-German Energy Forum Support Office (IGEF-SO) and the H2Uppp Programme, hosted a webinar on “Decentralised Hydrogen Production and Applications: Opportunities and Insights” on 18th September 2025. It was supported by Green Hydrogen India (GH2 India) and Women in Green Hydrogen (WiGH) South Asia and was attended by more than 200 participants.
The webinar explored how distributed green hydrogen solutions can strengthen energy access, security and industrial decarbonisation by bringing production closer to the point of use, reducing transport costs and improving resilience. With India pursuing ambitious green hydrogen expansion and Germany contributing strong technological expertise, decentralised systems offer significant potential - particularly for remote and off-grid regions with abundant renewable resources. Participants hereby gained insights into practical technologies for local hydrogen generation and application through presentations by industry experts from Umagine Hydrogen, Enapter and SFC Energy, followed by an interactive Q&A session.
Ms. Shivani Chaturvedi, Regional Director, Indo-German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC), opened the session by highlighting the growing opportunities for Indo-German collaborations in decentralised hydrogen solutions. She underlined the importance of such dialogues in promoting innovation, knowledge exchange, and partnerships for advancing the hydrogen economy.
Setting the stage for discussion, Mr. Santosh Gurunath, CEO and Co-Founder of Umagine,introduced India’s evolving hydrogen market, noting that 25-30% of the projected global hydrogen demand by 2050 could come from decentralised applications and showcasing pilot initiatives such as micro-grids in Ladakh and Uttarakhand, blending with natural gas for cooking in the residential sector in Gujarat, and fuel-cell mobility pilots in Assam.
Speaking from a German technology perspective, Mr. Stephan Laistner, Director Sales Europe & Business Development – Hydrogen, SFC Energy,presented modular hydrogen fuel cell systems already deployed for telecom towers, fibre networks, defence operations and temporary infrastructure, offering zero-emission, scalable alternatives to diesel generators, with outputs up to 50 kW and clustered operation up to 200 kW.
Ms. Paulina Thomas, Business Development Manager at Enapter, highlighted the company’s AEM electrolysis technology designed for decentralised production, demonstrating how modular and AI-optimised systems - from compact 2.4 kW units to multi-MW plants - can dynamically follow renewable generation and reduce transportation costs and risks while supporting industrial and community hydrogen applications worldwide.
Across the session, Indo-German cooperation emerged as a central theme, confirming that decentralised hydrogen solutions are both technically mature and economically promising, and that joint innovation, business collaboration and knowledge exchange will continue to play an essential role in accelerating the green hydrogen ramp-up in India and Germany.
