Indian Innovation comes to the World Future Energy Summit

India to have special ‘country of focus’ for the 2020 World Future Energy Summit

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2020 will be a year when the eyes of the world are attentively focused on addressing our biggest and most pressing issues regarding the long-term survival of our shared global environment and living spaces. Naturally, this means that it will make for a particularly important edition of the World Future Energy Summit, as the cause of developing sustainable ways of working, thinking and living needs to be advanced with greater speed and enthusiasm than ever before.

With this in mind, India is a special ‘country of focus’ for the 2020 World Future Energy Summit. As one of the world’s fastest-growing economies with a population of around 1.4 billion people, India’s adoption of cleaner technologies and strategies matters massively in terms of global readjustment towards a sustainable future.

Fortunately, this attitude is becoming accepted wisdom across India’s political, economic and societal spheres, as this extremely influential country brings its innovative abilities to bear. At next year’s summit, we intend to highlight and explore the many ways in which India is driving sustainability both at home and abroad.

Renewable achievements lead to even higher targets

This month, India’s national renewable energy capacity passed 80GW, as it has successfully delivered projects amounting to 29.55GW of solar energy and 36.37GW of wind. These figures are representative of India’s strong and enduring commitment to making its energy future a renewable one. Further evidence of this attitude shown by India’s government and business leaders in the agreement of highly ambitious capacity targets and more instances of private-public sector cooperation to bring the necessary projects together.
By the end of 2022, India’s government aims to have 175GW of renewable energy capacity installed. Solar and wind will continue to form the bulk of this total, at 100GW and 60GW respectively. This represents a tripling of solar power and near doubling of wind, all within a mere three years.

New innovations unlock new opportunities

The first half of 2019 has been a time marked by several highly successful and important innovations in India. The following innovative renewable energy technologies (and doubtless there will be many more to add between now and next year) are changing the way India looks at its long-term sustainability options across various key industries.
Black Gold: While you might think of ‘Black Gold’ as an alternative name for oil, scientists from the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) have used the term to describe their entirely new material made from gold nanoparticles which have a wide range of practical applications. Most crucially from a sustainability perspective, they can be utilised in harvesting solar energy as well as desalinating seawater – both critical efforts in India’s bid for a cleaner future.

EESL initiatives: Energy Efficiency Services Ltd is at the forefront of India’s fight for energy efficiency and sustainability, and has a range of programmes currently being implemented to aid this vital endeavour. These include the National E-Mobility Programme, which has already seen 10,000 e-cars procured and over 1500 deployed on India’s roads. The programme also envisages the development of affordable and accessible EV infrastructure, such as charging stations, in collaboration with local authorities across various regions.
Another is the Smart Meter National Programme (SMNP), under which there have already been 300,000 smart metre installations across four of India’s states.

Rooftop solar AI innovation: As part of its bid to rapidly advance its national solar capacity, India’s government aims to achieve 40GW of rooftop solar by 2022. The Noida-based company, The Solar Labs, wants to help speed up this transition by using AI to very quickly and accurately help people determine how much solar energy they could obtain via rooftop panels, along with accurate financial estimates for the costs of installation and maintenance. As you can imagine, this information will be invaluable not only to large companies looking to develop rooftop solar capacity on their own properties but also to solar companies looking for viable customer prospects.

Discover India’s cleantech talent in 2020 

This year has already shown us that India is rising to the challenge of securing its energy needs in an entirely practical yet sustainable manner. These innovations listed are merely emblematic of what’s in store as we head towards the next decade.
Join us at the 2020 World Future Energy Summit to explore all of these innovations and many more at the specially designated India Pavilion, endorsed and supported by the Government of India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Here you will be able to experience the depth of innovation emerging from India and access leading figures in its business and government institutions.

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