US-India Energy Storage Task Force Commences Operations

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The United States (US)-India Energy Storage Task Force, first announced in October 2022 Ministerial meeting of the US-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP) held between Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri and US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, commenced operations today. 

The public-private US-India Energy Storage Task Force (ESTF) was established by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Indian Ministry of Power (MoP). The India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA), a leading industry alliance focused on the development of advanced energy storage, green hydrogen, and e-mobility technologies in India has been appointed as the Secretariat.

The US-India Energy Storage Task Force aims to facilitate an ongoing and meaningful dialogue among US and Indian government officials, industry representatives, and other stakeholders to scale up and accelerate the deployment of Energy Storage technologies. 

The ESTF will work towards further advancing the goals of the SCEP, including developing and deploying emerging clean energy technologies to decarbonize the energy sector. The SCEP is successfully strengthening energy security, creating opportunities for clean energy innovation, addressing climate change, and creating employment generation opportunities for both India and the US, a statement from IESA said. 

Rakesh Kumar, Secretary, Central Electricity Authority (CEA), Ministry of Power is the Co-chair the lead the task force from India. Kumar said, “The US-India ESTF, by synergizing the efforts and resources of the two countries will help India in achieving clean energy transition and targeted net zero emission by 2070. It aims at providing reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy storage solutions for the smooth integration of continuous and growing large scale planned RE capacity addition for greening of power sector in the country.”

“Stored energy is a key component of integrating renewable resources into the electric grid in America and around the globe,” said Eric Hsieh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Storage in the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE), and the US ESTF Co-Chair. “The launch of the ESTF between the U.S. and India demonstrates how critical partnerships are to achieving the clean energy transition, as well as the importance of broad collaboration to accelerate storage technologies.”