The University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) has become the first higher educational Institute to partner the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. Disclosing broad outlines of the memorandum of understanding signed between UPES and NITI Aayog, the university’s media affairs director Arun Dhand said that the MoU will run for the next five years wherein UPES and NITI Aayog would jointly examine the various energy sector issues such as resource availability, production, consumption, sectoral demand, local and global environmental impacts and implication of changes in energy prices and technology. The MOU also provides a framework for co-operation between NITI Aayog and UPES to collaborate for designing, developing, and conducting consultative policy dialogue and business research to promote and enable high level energy efficiency policy formulation in India by jointly undertaking several collaborative studies, he added.
Prasoom Dwivedi from the College of Management and Economic Studies, UPES informed that university is at present already working with NITI Aayog and jointly studying the impact of renewable penetration on grid integration in India and Japan and implication of Clean Coal Technologies energy scenarios of India and Japan. The main purpose of these two studies is to build scenario for 2032 and 2047 for India and Japan keeping the Intended National Determined Contribution (INDC) commitment of both countries in consideration.