Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday discussed efforts to revamp strategic energy partnership between India and the US with the visiting US Presidential Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry. Calling his meeting productive , Pradhan tweeted that the discussions focused on collaborating on technology and finance to further develop mutually beneficial low-carbon pathways in fast-growing India s energy market, including in gas, RE, biofuels & in hydrogen. RE stands for renewable energy. Also, discussed the ongoing efforts to revamp the strategic energy partnership with Energy Secretary @SecGranholm with focus on cleaner and green energies, including through the deployment of future technologies for carbon capture, battery storage and hydrogen, he added.
Indian Oil Corporation s research and development (R&D) centre has been working since the early 2000s to explore the use of hydrogen as a fuel. The use of this gas as a fuel has recently been tested by mixing it with compressed natural gas (CNG) to make H-CNG. This is the next logical step for adopting hydrogen as a fuel, according to officials at the R&D facility of Indian Oil. The R&D division is also in the process of closing a tender to generate clean hydrogen and demonstrate running of vehicles with this fuel. The end-to-end tender involves a demonstration of manufacturing hydrogen from four different technological routes and having car manufacturers running vehicles on gas. This demonstration project is expected to be completed by 2022.
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31 March 2021
A spike in the prices of crude oil, especially after the producer cartel Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has forced India to revamp its Strategic Energy Partnership (SEP) with the United States.
Towards this, India’s minister of petroleum and natural gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday held a virtual meeting with US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.
While the meeting was only introductory, both leaders agreed to revamp the India-US SEP to reflect the new priorities of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden with focus on promoting clean energy with low-carbon pathways and accelerating green energy cooperation.
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