India urges global community to accord priority to solar power in energy deployment – EQ Mag Pro
India on tuesday urged the global community to make solar power the priority in energy deployment at the COP26 climate summit.
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav,who represented India in the special event organized by International Solar Alliance (ISA) in partnership with the United Kingdom under the theme Green Grid Initiative- One Sun One World One Grid (GGI-OSOWOG) urged that grid interconnection will play a key role in revamping regional cooperation and transition to the low carbon power system.
In a keynote speech, Yadav emphasized investment in grid expansion and modernization with emphasis on solar which will enable transition in the global energy value change.
Heads of delegation of many countries including Jean Yves Le Adrian – the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs; Jennifer Granholm – the US Secretary of Energy; Dr Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar- Minister of Climate Change of Nigeria; Kwasi Kwarteng – the UK Secretary of State at Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Dr Ajay Mathur-Director General of ISA, also spoke on the occasion.
A recorded speech of the Prime Minister of Samoa, Fiame Naomi Matafa was played in the event. All the speakers wholeheartedly supported the GGI-OSOWOG initiative announced jointly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of UK Boris Johnson at COP26 and suggested ISA play a leading role to facilitate this by supporting regional power pools, where a group of countries create an interconnected grid to facilitate electricity trade-and connect various regional pools to eventually form a global grid.
The use of fossil fuels made some countries prosperous but it made the Earth and environment poor. Fossil fuels have fueled the industrial revolution but the race for fossil fuels has also simultaneously created geopolitical tensions, PM Modi had said at COP26 Leaders event ‘Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation & Development’….Read More…
