New Zealand, UK Offer Support For India’s Renewable Energy Development
Developed countries are lining up to pledge support to India’s ambitious renewable energy targets.
The United Kingdom has extended support to India’s ambitious renewable energy targets through cooperation in development and implementation of new technologies. Amber Rudd, UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change recently stated that her government is impressed with the leadership shown by India in implementing renewable energy infrastructures.
Speaking to her recent visit to India, Amber Rudd said that her country would cooperate with India for the development of renewable energy technologies that have not been adopted on a large-scale in India, including carbon capture and offshore wind energy technology. While some pilot projects on carbon capture may be operational in India, there are no offshore wind energy projects operational in the country, though earlier this month, the Indian government approved a national offshore wind energy policy.
The UK government also announced financial support of over a quarter of million dollars towards programs to increase access to electricity in India. In addition to collaboration in the renewable energy sector, the UK government may also support environmental projects in India.
The New Zealand government has also expressed interest in sharing technology and expertise with India in development of renewable energy projects, following the visit of a trade delegation from New Zealand who attended the 9th Renewable Energy Expo organised near Delhi.
Officials stated that New Zealand itself is looking to increase the share of renewable energy technologies in the energy mix to 80-90% by 2025, and “could boost India’s fast growing renewable energy sector by providing innovative assistance and advanced technologies.”
The delegation indicated that the two countries can collaborate on waste-to-energy technology which has been a neglected area in India’s quest to increase renewable energy capacity. This would help achieve India’s ambitious renewable energy target and also contribute to the Clean India campaign launched by the Indian Prime Minister, members of the New Zealand delegation stated.
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A quarter of a million dollars and help in wasting money on coal CCS? India does not need this kind of patronising and trivial “aid”. The only area where British input might be useful is offshore wind. But the expertise there is mainly in the hands of the developers like Dong and manufacturers like Siemens, who can make their own way to Delhi.
As per my knowledge Siemens has office, manufacturing and assembling plants in India
Quite agree with you.
Offshore wind in India is not even a fledgling industry yet and UK is the global leader, any collaboration, inputs or knowledge transfer would be quite useful.
As the UK is helping India in Offshore wind etc, Can the Indian’s help us with Solar/Onshore wind please? Amber Rudd seems to need some lessons.
Current return on Indian green bonds is 9.15%. Current Bank of England interest rate is 0.5%. I think I see a way for the UK to earn a better return on its money, assist Indian development, and help protect the world from global warming. It’s a win for Britain, a win for India, and a win for the world. So win, win, win times 7.3 billion plus generations yet to be (hopefully) born.
NZ’s renewable energy (about 80% currently) is dominated by hydropower. Its target of 90% is expected to be attained using wind. Hydropower is limited by existing rivers in NZ as in India and most parts of the world, and NZ buys its wind units from the usual suspects, mostly the same as India would use.
So the ‘waste to energy’ point from the NZ delegation is on point. NZ as a developed country agricultural exporter does indeed have a shot at doing something interesting with agricultural wastes. In NZ, grass is strategy, sheep or cattle is tactics, and now perhaps what comes out of the animals’ end may also be profitable in a new way. A shitty energy strategy.