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India-UK Energy Dialogue-advancing India's energy transition held in New Delhi

Published: Feb 11, 2025

By TIOLCorplaws News Service

NEW DELHI, FEB 11, 2025: THE Fourth India-UK Energy Dialogue, co-chaired by Manohar Lal, Union Minister of Power and Housing and Urban Affairs of India, and Mr. Ed Miliband, Secretary for Energy Security and Net Zero for United Kingdom, was held yesterday in New Delhi.

The dialogue focused on reviewing progress made in the energy sectors of both nations, including power and renewable energy, and reaffirming the commitment to a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive energy future. The Ministers underscored the importance of ensuring that the energy transition and economic growth proceed together, while maintaining affordable and clean energy access for all.

The Ministers underscored the importance of ensuring energy security and sustainable development and emphasized expanding the cooperation in the areas of power distribution, sector reforms, industrial energy efficiency and de-carbonization, and electric mobility while exploring new opportunities in the emerging fields such as energy storage, green data centers, and offshore wind, with an increased focus on MSMEs.

The Ministers were pleased to announce the launch of Phase-2 of the India-UK bilateral Accelerating Smart Power & Renewable Energy in India (ASPIRE) programme. This phase will aim to provide technical support for ensuring round-the-clock power supply, expanding renewable energy initiatives, and accelerating industrial energy efficiency and de-carbonization, in collaboration with the Ministry of Power (MOP) and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).

The Ministers were pleased to observe the bilateral collaboration between the two sides to promote growth and jobs, through technical assistance cooperation and investment.  They also discussed the progress of trade missions focusing on offshore wind and green hydrogen, as well as the cooperation between the UK's Energy Systems Catapult and India's Power Trading Corporation.

Recognizing the shared ambition for advancing offshore wind development, the Ministers announced the establishment of a UK-India Offshore Wind Taskforce, which will focus on advancing offshore wind ecosystem development, supply chains, and financing models in both countries.  Mr. Miliband commended India's ambitious initiatives in the renewable energy sector and shown a strong interest in gaining insights from India's experience in implementing the Solar Rooftop Programme (PM – Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojna).

The Ministers agreed on the importance of power market regulations in driving the energy transition and ensuring greater energy security and access. To support this, they announced the continuation of the Power Sector Reforms programme under the UK Partnering for Accelerating Climate Change (UKPACT). Additionally, a new taskforce has been proposed between the UK's Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (OFGEM) and India's Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to support renewable energy integration and grid transformation in India.

Both Ministers emphasized the ongoing value of the India-UK Energy Dialogue in advancing mutual energy transition goals, ensuring energy access, and building secure and sustainable clean energy supply chains while aligning these efforts with economic growth.

The Ministers expressed their intention to further strengthen their collaboration through the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and looked forward to the fifth UK-India Energy Dialogue in 2026. The dialogue concluded with the launch of the 'Best Practices Compendium of Industrial Energy Efficiency/Decarbonisation' and a 'Pathways for Energy Efficiency and Decarbonisation in the Indian Aluminium Sector'.

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