Bharat Cleantech Manufacturing Platform

About Bharat Cleantech Manufacturing Platform: 

• It is an initiative designed to enhance India's cleantech value chains in the solar, wind, hydrogen, and battery storage sectors.
• It will provide an opportunity for the Indian firms to collaborate, to co-innovate and will help provide a platform for financing, to share ideas, technologies and resources.
• Significance: This will help India become an attractive business case and a global leader in the sustainability and cleantech sector.

India’s Clean Energy targets

• Target: 500 Gigawatt of clean energy sources by 2030 in the country.
• India has been one of the best performing countries in terms of meeting the Nationally Determined Contributions (NCDs) submitted in 2015 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement.
• India has achieved the target of installing renewable or clean energy by 2022, 8 years ahead of schedule.
• India has the largest interconnected grid in the world. 
• Gujarat was one of the first states to adopt solar power. 

Q1:What is cleantech manufacturing?

Cleantech products or services are those that improve operational performance, productivity, or efficiency while reducing costs, inputs, energy consumption, waste, or environmental pollution.

Source: PIB