Union Minister for Power and New & Renewable Energy, RK Singh, chaired a virtual meeting with the officers of Ministry of Power and MNRE, Addl. Chief Secretaries and Principal Secretaries of Power/Energy Departments of states & UTs to discuss the role of States and UTs towards energy transition goals of India.
This meeting was organised in line with the Prime Minister’s commitment at COP26, towards reducing the carbon intensity of our country. The objective of this meeting was to ensure the state’s participation in fulfilling the India’s climate commitments and each State and UT can be assigned energy saving targets.
Singh emphasised the need to have state specific agency dedicated for energy efficiency and conservation. States should develop action plan to achieve the assigned targets. India will replace diesel with renewables to achieve target of zero diesel use in agricultural sector by 2024.
He highlighted that the commercial buildings should follow ECBS and the domestic buildings should follow ECO NIVAS and this should be part of the building by-law. He said that all the power demand will be met by non-fossil fuel methods with the help of energy storage .
At the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November 2021, Modi announced India’s ‘Panchamrit’ to combat climate change effects. The five nectar elements are:
*India will reach its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030.
*India will meet 50 percent of its energy requirements from renewable energy by 2030.
*India will reduce the total projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes from now onwards till 2030.
*By 2030, India will reduce the carbon intensity of its economy by less than 45 percent.
*By the year 2070, India will achieve the target of net zero.
A presentation was made by the DG BEE to deliberate about the various actions which may be taken at State levels.
BEE will hand hold states in preparing state specific action plans for achieving targeted goals for each state.
