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| India to host International Center on Energy Access | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI, APRIL 05: India today offered to set up an International Centre on Energy Access to boost the provision of energy to remote and inaccessible areas.
The offer was made by Dr Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New and Renewable Energy.
Dr Abdullah was speaking at the inaugural session of the assembly of the International Renewable Energy agency-IRENA currently being held at Abu Dhabi, UAE. IRENA, the world’s first intergovernmental agency on renewable agency was established in 2009 with the main objective of fostering international cooperation and promoting international understanding on renewable energy.
India has been associated with the formation of IRENA from the beginning and was among the first 25 countries to ratify its statute. Making a strong pitch for the use of renewable energy, Dr Abdullah emphasized that renewable energy is the only hope for the future. However, in order to make it the preferred energy worldwide and to scale up the use of renewable energy in the energy mix, the nations of the world need to cooperate more and share information, technology and best practices.
This will be necessary to bring energy access to vast areas of the world which have yet to experience the fruits of commercial energy. He spoke of India’s large size, considerable experience and a vast pool of technically qualified personnel and offered India’s expertise in building and hosting, in cooperation with IRENA, a Centre of Energy Access in India.
This centre will serve as Centre of Excellence in the field of energy access through the use of renewable energy. He also offered to host an international conference on energy access later this year to bring this idea to fruition. He also announced the scaling up of India’s international programme on capacity building and to share expertise and best practices with developing countries.
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