Govt launches initiative to leverage emerging technologies in power sector
The government has launched a 'Mission on Advanced and High-Impact Research (MAHIR)' with a view to leverage emerging technologies in the power sector and make the country a manufacturing hub.
The 'Mission on Advanced and High-Impact Research (MAHIR)' aims to facilitate indigenous research, development and demonstration of the latest and emerging technologies in the power sector, a power ministry statement said.
By identifying emerging technologies and taking them to the implementation stage, the mission seeks to leverage them as the main fuel for future economic growth and thus make India a manufacturing hub of the world, it stated.
The Ministry of Power and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy have jointly launched a national mission to quickly identify emerging technologies in the power sector and develop them indigenously, at scale, for deployment within and outside India.
An office memorandum to this effect has been issued today, it stated.
The mission will be funded by .