India — US Collaboration

The cooperation between India and the US in the Power sector is under the umbrella of Indo - US Energy Dialogue. The Dialogue was launched in May, 2005 and has the following objectives: 

1. To enhance mutual energy security,
2. Promote increased energy trade and investment,
3. Facilitate the deployment of clean energy technologies.

The Dialogue has been renamed as US – India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP). The Ministerial meeting of the US – India SCEP is co-chaired by Hon’ble Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and the US Secretary of Energy. Currently the US – India SCEP has the following pillars:

U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and India’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) collaborate under the aegis of the Power and Energy Efficiency Working Group. The main goal of the collaborations was to support development and implementations of energy efficient policies and best practices that can help achieve national energy efficiency goals and significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. For implementation of projects identified in the Working Group (Power and Energy Efficiency).

Progress

US Dept. of Energy (DOE), and BEE are exploring areas for collaboration to enhance energy efficiency and energy savings in the industrial sector by advancing a comprehensive energy management system in accordance with ISO-50001, waste heat recovery, industry deep-decarbonization and use of hydrogen.

BEE and US Department of Energy collaborated to enhance energy efficiency and energy savings in the industrial sector by advancing a comprehensive energy management system in accordance with ISO 500001. Two Webinar session organized on Industrial Efficiency: ISO 50001 Energy Management System highlighting the Textile, Pulp & Paper and Thermal Power Plant sectors during the month of September and October 2021.

India along with USDOE is currently working on-

1. India Building Sector Outlook to support long-term policy and regulatory capacity and improve investment decision-making for sustainable growth of the building sector.
   Under this DOE working with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNP) to facilitate development of India’s Building Sector Outlook with projected baseline and mitigation models. This will entail low carbon-pathway scenarios for India’s commercial and residential building sectors. This will include embodied carbon mitigation for steel and cement as pervasive regional building materials that are hard to decarbonize, as well as operational carbon mitigation
2. India Grid-integrated Efficient Buildings (GEB) Feasibility Framework to support building to-grid-to community-scale integration with cost-effective distributed energy resources
   Under this DOE working along with, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNP) for development of India GEB Feasibility Framework for technologies and investments leveraging the national lab’s domestic leadership in this space. GEBs could enable significant value streams for energy planning and reporting (integrated land use planning and community infrastructure investments in microgrids, storage, district heating and cooling), energy efficiency(leveraging optimizations for community-scale energy supply and demand), flexible load management (grid-edge load management to offset, shift, and flatten loads for multiple buildings and EV fleets), cost savings and revenue generation (participating in grid services), and social benefits such as energy resilience, equity, and awareness.
3. Waste Heat Recovery

   USDOE along with ORNL is working to provide an overview of MEASUR and the process heating tool, in particular. Advance Manufacturing Office (AMO) under DOE has developed several software tools over the years to help manufacturers identify opportunities and calculate potential energy savings. Recently, these tools have been updated to also include carbon/CO2e mitigation values, and AMO has consolidated them into a platform called the MEASUR tool suite. (A single program with multiple embedded apps.) MEASUR tool suite can analyse most major support systems found within manufacturing facilities, including pumps, fans, process heat, steam, and compressed air. One webinar on MEASUR tool suite is scheduled to be held on 13th September, 2022 and webinar on Deep dive on process heating modeling tool (PHAST) & case studies 29th September, 2022 respectively.