The ministry plans to encourage automobile users of electric cars to recharge their batteries using renewable energy or solar energy during day hours
Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs & Food & Public Distribution, and Textiles Piyush Goyal said that we are fully confident that India will play a leadership role in the area of renewable energy in the years to come. Dwelling upon the progress made in the country in the area, he said that from the hydro-power in the initial stages, we are already looking at the future & have started engaging in Hydrogen technologies.
A Hydrogen Energy Mission in 2021-22 for generating hydrogen from green power sources has been launched. He noted that LED Mission was another success story led by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
“LED Lights have saved the country billions of dollars in electricity bills. As a nation, it brought down our carbon emissions by over a 120 million tonnes every year. We were able to bring scale and rapidly roll it out all over the country”, he added.
The ministry plans to encourage automobile users of electric cars to recharge their batteries using renewable energy or solar energy during day hours, for which we are looking at a big rollout of charging stations across gas stations in the country.
“Our idea is to make India conscious of its electricity needs being met in a more sustainable fashion & balancing the cost of electricity in such a manner that our developmental goals do not get affected. From an overall renewable energy target of 175 GW by 2022, India is now looking at 450 GW by 2030, he said.
He added, “As Import component kept reducing, and this broughtdown prices significantly. Because of the huge scale, we were able to get the world’s best companies in India, invest in India, get competitive pricing & we allowed imports.”
