{"id":21703,"date":"2024-03-20T10:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T04:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21703"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:50:26","slug":"international-partnership-for-hydrogen-and-fuel-cells-in-economy-iphe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-partnership-for-hydrogen-and-fuel-cells-in-economy-iphe\/","title":{"rendered":"International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy (IPHE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy (IPHE)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>IPHE, established in 2003, is an <strong>international inter-governmental<\/strong> partnership currently consisting of <strong>23 member countries and the European Commission.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective<\/strong>: To <strong>facilitate and accelerate the transition toclean and efficient energy<\/strong> and mobility systems using <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/fuel-cell\/\" target=\"_blank\">fuel cells<\/a> and hydrogen technologies.<\/li>\n<li>IPHE serves as a mechanism to <strong>organize and implement effective<\/strong>, efficient, and focused <strong>international research, <\/strong>development, demonstration, and commercial utilization activities <strong>related to hydrogen and fuel cell<\/strong> technologies.<\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>provides a forum<\/strong> for sharing information on policies and technology status, as well as on initiatives, codes, and standards to accelerate the cost-effective transition to the use of fuel cells and hydrogen in the economy.<\/li>\n<li>The IPHE also informs broad stakeholder groups, including policymakers and the public, on the benefits of, and challenges to, establishing widespread commercial hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in the economy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Members<\/strong>: <strong>Australia<\/strong>, Canada, European Commission, <strong>India<\/strong>, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Chile, France, Italy, Norway, <strong>UAE<\/strong>, Belgium, <strong>China<\/strong>, <strong>Germany, Japan<\/strong>, <strong>South Africa, United Kingdom, Brazil<\/strong>, Costa Rica, Iceland, South Korea, Singapore, and the <strong>United States.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is a Fuel Cell?<\/h3>\n<p>A fuel cell is a device that generates electricity by a chemical reaction. Fuel cells can be used in a wide range of applications, providing power for applications across multiple sectors, including transportation, industrial\/commercial\/residential buildings, and long-term energy storage for the grid in reversible systems.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/renewable\/india-hosts-41st-iphe-meeting-focuses-on-accelerating-hydrogen-economy\/108613393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>India hosts 41st IPHE meeting, focuses on accelerating hydrogen economy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy  is an international inter-governmental partnership currently consisting of 23 member countries and the European Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}