India, US agree to collaborate on emerging fuels

NEW DELHI. India and the US have agreed to expand their energy partnership by adding emerging fuels to the list of areas of cooperation that previously included power and energy efficiency, oil and gas, renewable energy and sustainable growth, an official statement said.

This followed a ministerial meeting of the US-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP) on Thursday evening. “Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri co-chaired a virtual ministerial meeting with US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm to launch the revamped US-India SCEP,” a statement from oil ministry said. The SCEP was launched in accordance with the US-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden in April this year.