Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the post-budget webinar today stated that India will now increase its efforts to produce sustainable energy from sustainable resources. The webinar was a 30-minute session where the focus was on India increasing its energy consumption from sustainable energy sources.
The topic of discussion was titled ‘Energy for sustainable growth.’ Modi addressed the session kickstarted by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) between 10:00 am to 10:30 am today. Participating Ministries were the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Power, Ministry of External Affairs, Secretary MNRE, Secretary of Coal, CEO of Niti Aayog.
The webinar conducted by the MNRE in their official statement mentioned that the overall webinar will have 3 curated sessions. Soon after PM Modi finishes his speech, about 6 breakout sessions are scheduled to discuss the efforts Centre has decided and the initiatives of the energy sector, ideas to execute the initiatives.
The webinar was concluded jointly by the Ministry of Power and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
MNRE in detail in its breakout session will discuss how to scale up renewable energy, it was presided by eminent speakers both from the public and private sectors. This session focussed mainly on
(1) Solar: India will target manufacturing and installing close to 300 gigawatts of solar-powered capacity by the year 2030. Making India less dependent on imports and also giving incentives for domestic manufacturing of Solar PV in India.
(2) Green Hydrogen: The National Green Hydrogen Mission was announced by Modi in his last year’s Independence day speech. He stated that his goal was to boost India’s position as a global hub of producing Green Hydrogen and exporting the same.
MNRE has accordingly developed the National Green Hydrogen Mission with the sole purpose of decarbonizing existing major sectors of the economy and providing independence to India’s energy consumption and moving ahead with the ambition of global clean energy transformation.
