India -UK Collaboration
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and the United Kingdom on cooperation in the energy sector was signed during the visit of Hon'ble Prime Minister of India to UK during November, 2015.
The MoU provides framework for technical assistance, including in-kind grant, and other support, as mutually agreed, through relevant projects initiated by the United Kingdom. The MoU also encourage development of project specific agreements on time-to-time basis.
A PPR of India-UK new partnership programme of Technical Assistance Collaboration on Power Sector was approved by the Screening Committee of Department of Economic Affairs. Accordingly, a DPR has been submitted by the UK side for further taking up the project.
The project will focus on the following themes outlined below. All the themes will aid India’s efforts to transition towards a low carbon economy as well as deepening UK-India collaboration in advance of COP26 in Glasgow 2021.
Theme 1: Electricity distribution sector
Theme 2: Energy Efficiency includes 2 sub-themes:
Industrial Energy Efficiency Chaired by DG, BEE
Electric mobility charging infrastructure Chaired by CE (EC & ET), MoP
3rd India – UK Energy for Growth Partnership Ministerial Energy Dialogue held on 8th October 2021 to strengthen collaboration on accelerating the move to global clean energy in the decade ahead. Government of India endorsed Roadmap 2030 for India-UK forward Action Plan on clean energy, improving energy efficiency measures, enabling use of green hydrogen, and increasing the switch to electric mobility.
Sub-theme- Industrial Energy Efficiency. Following action have been initiated-
Work Package 1:
Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and the British High Commission (BHC) is working on Rejuvenation of Knowledge Exchange Platform which was launched on 26th February 2015 for promoting industrial energy efficiency. The objective of the KEP was to promote energy efficiency (EE) measures among industries through sharing of best practices, sectoral learnings and EE technologies adopted by other industries. The KEP primarily covered nine large energy intensive industries under the Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme of BEE and enabled them to develop strategies and solutions that can enhance their energy productivity and performance. The purpose of this work package is to rebuild and launch the KEP as a one-stop shop for all energy efficiency needs of industries by integrating new features and make it sustainable beyond the programme duration. This would include a database of proven & emerging technologies available in India and globally, database of technology providers and financial institutions for enhancing adoption of EE technologies/ solutions including broader solutions such as fuel switching, material substitution, circularity, resource efficiency, Industry 4.0, etc
Work Package 2:
Industrial Energy Efficiency and Decarbonisation Knowledge and Technology Partnerships
India with UK is working in the area of Industrial Energy Efficiency and Decarbonization Knowledge and Technology Partnerships. It includes identification and development of partnership and deployment opportunities for deploying UK and international decarbonisation technologies in larger industries in India, a gap assessment of Indian industrial decarbonisation based upon primary and secondary research will be mapped to UK/International technology expertise. This will facilitate the identification of key technology providers and users for tailored partnership development support. Based on assessment of Building on industry prioritisation, technology gap assessment, and development of provider/user longlist, a tailored programme of brokerage and deployment support activities will be undertaken.