The Ministry of Power (MoP) and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) have jointly launched a national mission to identify emerging technologies in the power sector and develop them indigenously, at scale, for deployment within and outside India.
The national mission, titled “Mission on Advanced and High-Impact Research (MAHIR)” aims to facilitate indigenous research, development and demonstration of the latest and emerging technologies in the power sector. The mission will be funded by pooling financial resources of the MoP, MNRE and the central public sector enterprises under the two ministries. Any additional funding needed will be mobilised from Government of India’s budgetary resources. Planned for an initial period of five years from 2023-24 to 2027-28, the mission will follow the technology life cycle approach of idea to product. To begin with, eight areas have been identified for research, namely, alternatives to lithium-ion storage batteries; modifying electric cookers / pans to suit Indian cooking methods; green hydrogen for mobility (high efficiency fuel cell); carbon capture; geo-thermal energy; solid state refrigeration; nano technology for electric vehicle battery; and indigenous cold rolled grain oriented (CRGO) technology. The mission seeks to make India a manufacturing hub of the world.
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