Recently, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) organised the National Innovation Conclave on Low Carbon Technologies – to commemorate its 20th Foundation Day. This conclave provided a platform to present the innovations showing benefits of energy savings and greenhouse gas emission reduction potential when deployed at a large scale in industrial and commercial sectors.
R.K. Singh, Union Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy, Government of India delivered special address on the occasion. He emphasized that there is a need to establish a robust ecosystem for innovation. We need to help people working in this direction and fill in the gaps for bringing such technologies to market.
Facility for Low Carbon Technology Deployment (FLCTD) is a project financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in collaboration with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). The event showcased many low carbon technology innovations developed and validated with the support of FLCTD project. More than 35 innovators participated in the exposition organised under the event. Since 2018, the FLCTD project has conducted four rounds of innovation challenges.
On this occasion, a compendium of the FLCTD Accelerator was released and the winners were facilitated. The conclave focused on the challenges in low-carbon innovation including the need for financing towards commercialization and scale up. The conclave had sessions deliberating on innovating technologies, investments in cleantech innovation and FLCTD’s Accelerator programme.
