The Ministerial dialogue of US India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (USISCEP) is going to be co-chair by Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri with the United States Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to be held on Friday, October 7 in Washington DC.
Mr Puri will also lead an official and business delegation to Washington DC and Houston from October 6 to 11, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas said in a statement.Â
Revamped USISCEP
The updated USISCEP has launched in 2021 following the US-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 partnership announced by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President of the United States Joe Biden at the Leaders Summit on Climate held in April 2021.
The Agenda 2030 partnership continues to advance security, innovation and energy, scaling up emerging clean energy technologies and deploying technical solutions through five pillars.
Five pillars of Agenda 2030 ‘
The pillars are the responsible oil and gas pillar, sustainable growth pillar, emerging fuels and technologies, power and energy efficiency pillar and renewable energy pillar.
The US-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership includes two tracks of engagement that is the climate action and finance mobilisation dialogue and another one is the strategic clean energy partnership (SCEP).
The union minister will also interact with World Bank officials on Climate Resilient Urban Infrastructure. Besides, Puri also participates in the two executive round tables with the USA-India Business Council in Washington DC and another one with the USA-India Strategic partnership forum in Houston, according to the ministry of petroleum and natural gas statement.
During the visit, the union minister will also hold discussions with the chief executive officers of us based energy companies, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas added.Â
SCEP continue to advance energy security
Strategic Clean Energy Partnership will continue to advance energy security and innovation with greater importance on electrification and decarbonisation of processes and end uses.
In addition scaling up emerging clean energy technologies, deploying technical solutions and finding solutions for hard-to-decarbonise sectors, the ministry said.
Meeting with the private sector and other stakeholders remains the first choice to facilitate rapid technology deployment and create economic opportunities for US and India, the ministry added.
US-India 2030 partnership Agenda.
The US-India Agenda 2030 partnership was to meet the goals set up by the Paris agreement in the current decade. It also aims for stronger bilateral cooperation on climate actions.
India has raised the India-US energy dialogue to a strategic energy partnership in 2018.
In the revamped Strategic clean energy partnership an addition of the fifth pillar on emerging fuels is cleaner energy fuels.
SCEP supports India in achieving its goal of installing 450GW of renewable energy capacity by the year 2030.
A new India -US Taskforce on Biofuels was also announced to build on the scope of work on cooperation in the biofuels sector.
Rechristening of the gas task forceÂ
Renaming US-India low-emission gas task force from the gas task force would continue to form a collaboration between Indian and US companies on innovative projects to support India’s vision of a gas-based economy.
Strengthening the electric grid in India to support large-scale integration of renewable energy including through workable resources, energy storage and smart grids.
Establishment of India Energy Modeling forum with the composition of six task forces for carrying out research and modelling in different areas.
Joint committees have been set up to plan on low carbon technologies, energy data management and just transition in the coal sector.
As part of the Department of Science and Technology initiative of Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE-R) in the second phase included smart grid and grid storage.
