{"id":18048,"date":"2024-09-17T09:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/?p=18048"},"modified":"2024-09-17T09:52:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:22:05","slug":"u-s-india-strategic-clean-energy-partnership-ministerial-joint-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/2024\/09\/17\/u-s-india-strategic-clean-energy-partnership-ministerial-joint-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership Ministerial Joint Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP) Ministerial was convened by U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri in Washington D.C, yesterday. The sides reviewed the initiatives undertaken across the technical pillars under the SCEP, including Power & Energy Efficiency, Responsible Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy, Emerging Fuels & Technologies, and Sustainable Growth. The ministers welcomed progress made under the partnership to drive clean energy innovation, strengthen energy security, and accelerate clean energy transitions, including through more focused efforts on\u00a0clean energy manufacturing and building resilient, responsible, stable, secure and diversified supply chains<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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While recognizing the need to work towards a just, orderly and sustainable energy transition, which prioritizes access to reliable, affordable, and clean energy supplies, the sides welcomed the important role that energy trade plays in supporting the national priorities of both countries.<\/p>\n

The ministers recognized the progress the two countries have made to accelerate development and deployment of emerging clean energy technologies, advancing renewable energy deployment and reliable grid integration, promote energy efficiency, and advance decarbonization of high-emitting sectors like industry, buildings, and transport.<\/p>\n

The ministers welcomed the formal\u00a0launch of the Renewable Energy Technology Action Platform (RETAP) in August 2023<\/em><\/strong>, aimed at developing actionable roadmaps for hydrogen, long duration energy storage, offshore wind, and geothermal, through R&D, pilots and demonstration, and incubation-investment-industry networks. They also expressed satisfaction at the progress being made by both sides under the RETAP mechanism.<\/p>\n

The two countries welcomed collaboration on the new\u00a0National Centre for Hydrogen Safety<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in India and partnership on the\u00a02nd<\/sup>\u00a0International Conference on Green Hydrogen<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0held in September 2024. The ministers highlighted expanded bilateral expert exchanges on clean hydrogen R&D, cost reduction efforts, and implementation of hydrogen hubs in both countries through RETAP, the public-private\u00a0Hydrogen Task Force<\/em><\/strong>. The ministers also welcomed work on use of green hydrogen in buses, tractors and heavy equipment.<\/p>\n

The ministers stressed the importance of supporting large-scale grid integration of renewable energy while enabling flexible and reliable grid operations through energy storage. They welcomed the formal launch of the public-private\u00a0Energy Storage Task Force<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to address policy and regulatory frameworks, safety, manufacturing and supply chains, and innovative business models; focused RETAP efforts on long duration energy storage and alternative chemistries to Li-ion technologies; efforts on the technical and economic feasibility of various storage technologies available for a\u00a0renewable energy battery energy storage system (BESS)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>in the state of Assam; and support for BESS bids and pilots in Haryana. The sides also recognized\u00a0pumped storage<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0as a long-term energy storage option.<\/p>\n

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The two countries highlighted the importance of\u00a0modernizing the power distribution sector<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to supply\u00a024\/7 reliable power to consumers<\/em><\/strong>, welcomed\u00a0support for India\u2019s smart metering deployment<\/em><\/strong>, as well as expanded efforts on inverter-based resources, power market reforms, system inertia estimation, and cybersecurity.<\/p>\n

The ministers also commended the Indian Railways (IR) efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2030 and welcomed collaboration to support India\u2019s first round-the-clock renewable energy procurement of over 1.5 GW and development an energy efficiency policy and action plan for all railway facilities.<\/p>\n

The two countries agreed to give an impetus to sustainable aviation fuel. In this context, the sides welcomed\u00a0new engagement on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>with an inaugural SAF workshop to support training on R&D, tax incentives, supply chain capacity building, market development, financing opportunities, fuel certification, regional and international coalition building, and facilitating commercial partnerships. The ministers also welcomed the development of two joint reports on SAF and biofuels under the\u00a0Biofuels Task Force.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The two countries reiterated their commitment to enhance energy efficiency and welcomed\u00a0collaboration on super-efficient appliances\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>to improve efficiency standards, boost the deployment and manufacturing of high efficiency affordable cooling systems and promote supply chain diversification.<\/p>\n

The ministers welcomed new collaboration on electrification of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles\u00a0\u00a0 including through a series of related workshops and structured expert exchanges on transport electrification for e-freight, including electric buses. They applauded implementation of the PM eBus Sewa scheme for deploying 10,000 e-buses across India.<\/p>\n

The ministers highlighted progress under the workstream on carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), including an August 2024 workshop in Delhi with a broad set of stakeholders that identified concrete areas for engagement on geologic carbon storage, including increased cooperation on technical and legal\/regulatory aspects as India develops its CCUS Mission. The sides also noted the effort for pursual of capacity building in energy modeling and life cycle emission tools.<\/p>\n

In addition, the ministers noted progress under a workstream on methane abatement in the oil and gas sector, through the technical cooperation with the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH).<\/p>\n

The ministers commended the work on advanced research and development of new smart grid and energy storage technologies under the recently concluded the US-India CollAborative for Smart DiStribution System wIth Storage (UI-ASSIST) program under the\u00a0U.S.-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy-Research (PACE-R)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The ministers expressed satisfaction with the range of productive\u00a0public-private sector dialogues<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0that inform enabling policy and regulatory frameworks; help scale, deploy, and reduce costs of clean energy technologies; and facilitate investment and commercial partnerships. They welcomed increased investment in each country\u2019s clean energy markets, including a recent investment by Indian company Waaree in a 3GW state-of the-art solar module manufacturing facility in Texas. The ministers also noted the signing of three new memoranda of understanding between commercial partners on important areas of emissions measurement and methane abatement, including in City Gas Distribution (CGD).<\/p>\n

The ministers recognized that energy transitions require concerted action and implementation at the national and local levels to ensure viable, sustainable clean energy efforts and a just energy transition. To that end, the ministers welcomed capacity building and dissemination of best practices, across all levels of government.<\/p>\n

The ministers praised the breadth and depth of the U.S.-India partnership to advance progress toward our common clean energy goals and address today\u2019s unprecedented climate challenges. They noted that by leveraging the SCEP partnerships, the U.S. and India can spur innovation and help build more secure, resilient, and diverse clean energy supply chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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