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India announced the launch of its “Innovation Roadmap of the Mission Integrated Biorefineries” developed by co-leads and active inputs from Brazil, Canada, EC, and the UK at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum-2022 at Pittsburgh, in the United States on Friday, September 23.
Minister Jitendra Singh, who’s leading a high-level joint Indian Delegation of the Ministry of Power, New & Renewable Energy, and Ministry of Science & Technology, made the announcement at the first roundtable on “Sustainable Bioenergy and Bio-refineries” at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum – the joint convening of 7th Mission Innovation and 13th Clean Energy Ministerial -2022 in Pittsburgh.
The mission aims at greater international collaboration and the need for increased financing for Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration (RD&D) during the next five years through public-private investment.
Singh said, “Innovation Roadmap of the mission Integrated Biorefineries aims to fill the void by identifying gaps and challenges in current biorefining value chains, prioritizing eight key actions to provide support and guidance to the mission and helping it to achieve its goal. It also provides policymakers with a strategic framework to establish a rising RD&D portfolio over the next five years, specific financing proposals across the entire spectrum of vital Biorefinery technologies, and rapid action suggestions.”
Addressing the Ministers & CEOs, Senior representatives of the US DoE, Mission Innovation Steering Committee, and Mission Innovation Secretariat, and Senior representatives from MI Member countries and partner organizations, Singh said that Clean Energy Meet offers India an opportunity to present Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s climate and clean energy vision before the world.
Singh informed the delegates that India is working towards transforming the energy landscape of the country with significant clean energy share and added that by 2030, India agreed to reach 500-gigawatt non-fossil energy capacity, shift 50% of energy requirements to renewable energy, lower overall anticipated carbon emissions by one billion ton, reduce the carbon intensity of the economy by 45% over 2005 levels, and achieve net zero emissions by 2070.
A pilot plant of 10 tons per day capacity, said Singh, with integrated enzyme production, is being set up at Panipat, Haryana, which will be commissioned by December 2022. This will be the 1st indigenous technology for on-site enzyme production.
The Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) also plans to supply this indigenous enzyme to a commercial 2G ethanol plant of 100 KL per day capacity that is expected to be commissioned by Q2 of 2024. The lignin valorization process is also being developed to produce value-added products from waste lignin. Singh said that this will give indigenous technology to the nation and help reduce the carbon footprint of the transport sector.
Sustainable biofuels play a key role to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from the transport sector. Singh said, India, through the Department of Biotechnology, has been supporting R&D innovations in Advanced Biofuels and Waste to Energy technologies. India has established 5 Bioenergy Centers, where the interdisciplinary team is working on advanced sustainable biofuels using modern biotechnology tools.
