LUCKNOW, Dec. 16 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has approved establishment of two Centres of Excellence (CoE) for green hydrogen, selecting university-led consortia in Kanpur and Varanasi-Gorakhpur under the UP Green Hydrogen Policy-2024, officials said.

The decision, based on the recommendations of a high-level expert committee, was cleared by energy minister AK Sharma through an order issued two weeks ago.

Under the approval, the first CoE will be jointly set up by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and Harcourt Butler Technical University (HBTU), Kanpur, while the second will be established by IIT-BHU, Varanasi, in partnership with Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology (MMMUT), Gorakhpur.

Both centres will func...