German Ambassador to India Martin Ney on Wednesday stressed on the need for having right energy mix, saying that focus must be on both energy efficiency as well as renewables.
“The need of the hour is to set the priorities right. There is a variety of complex issues, the solution is an intelligent energy mix coupled with focus on both energy efficiency and renewable energy,” Ney said at an international conference on ‘large-Scale Grid Integration of Renewable Energy’ here.
The US Agency for International Development and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), under the bilateral cooperation with the power ministry and the ministry of new and renewable energy, jointly hosted the conference.