Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space Dr. Jitendra Singh visited the Technology Showcase on the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium in Goa held on the sidelines of the G20 Energy Transition Ministerial Meeting (ETMM) beneath the aegis of the eighth Mission Innovation (MI-8) and 14th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM14), throughout July 19-22, 2023.

He interacted with the members from the completely different R&D centres of Department of Science and Technology (DST) on the exhibition.

The Technology Showcase was organized beneath three components – Vehicle and Charging, Infrastructure Showcase (by SIAM, TERI, CALSTART, and Drive to Zero), Mission Innovation (by DST), and Clean Tech Start-up (TERI). It featured India’s cutting-edge advances, new and rising applied sciences in numerous sectors and supplied a novel expertise in clear power, and DST showcased applied sciences and improvements by its R&D centres and institutes unfold all around the nation. The Showcase was a key component of the Clean Energy Ministerial & Mission Innovation conferences.

Dr Singh additionally introduced a number of funding alternatives and grants to drive clear power at an accelerated tempo, on the day of the Ministerial assembly. These included the Funding Opportunity Announcement 2023 for RD&D within the space of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage beneath Mission Innovation 2.0 to undertake Joint Research & Development with member MI international locations to establish and prioritize breakthrough applied sciences within the subject of CO2 Capture, Separation, Storage, and CO2 worth addition and recounted India’s progress within the space.

Besides this, he additionally felicitated the National Challenge Winners/grantees beneath the realm of Clean Energy Storage & Green Hydrogen by providing them quotation plaques in addition to felicitated the winners of 4 National Challenge Grant initiatives on High-efficiency PV cells and modules to handle essentially the most pressing innovation precedence recognized beneath Green Powered Future Mission.

Elaborating on India’s efforts whereas addressing the CEM 14/MI 8 joint Ministerial, Dr Singh mentioned “For hydrogen, we are in the advanced stage of initiating small-scale Hydrogen Valley and also initiating four Indo-Danish projects.  Further, we also kick start four projects of fabrication of champion devices to make efficient solar cells toward Green powered future mission.  Seven R&D projects to develop novel low carbon jet fuel will also be supported and an indigenous 2G ethanol technology developed and demonstrated at 250 kg/day pilot plant scale.”

The Union Minister additionally launched the Mission Innovation know-how compendium, a compilation of the applied sciences developed by DST supported MI interventions within the space of CCUS, Hydrogen, Smart Grids, constructing power effectivity, off-grids and so forth to assist the nation transition to a low carbon economic system. 

Glimpses of launches & Announcements throughout CEM-14/MI-8 Ministerial and go to to the Tech Expo for Technology showcasing.