BENGALURU, August 26: The International Solar Alliance will hold its first World Solar Technology Summit (WSTS) on a virtual platform on September 8.
Ruchira Kamboj Ambassador of India to Bhutan, in a tweet on Wednesday said, “Pleased to share the 1st world solar technology will be this year on September 8th. As leaders and experts engage in discussion, the summit represents India’s conviction towards a brighter greener future.”
The summit aims to bridge the gap in the application of solar technologies to meet a largely unmet need for solar-powered technologies in most countries. It seeks to bring the world’s most influential scientists and engineers in a common platform to deal with the challenges to form energy affordable.
The key stakeholders include leading academic scientists, technology developers, researchers and innovators to present and discuss the recent highlights of solar technologies, cost-wise; technology-wise, technology transfers, challenges and concerns in the field.
The International Solar Alliance ISA Secretariat revealed that the prime minister Narendra Modi, would inaugurate the summit. The main objective of WSTS would be to showcase to member countries a state of the art and next-generation solar technologies worldwide and to offer a chance to decision-makers and stakeholders to fulfil and discuss their priorities and strategic agendas towards a more consequential integration. It included deployment of 1000 GW of solar capacity and mobilisation of US$ 1000 billion of investment in the solar power sector by 2030.
The delegations would include office bearers and industry experts from France, U.S., Belgium, Japan, Korea, Canada, Finland, Italy, Germany, U.K., Australia and Africa besides India.
The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is a treaty-based international intergovernmental organisation lunched by the Indian prime minister in the presence of the former president of France François Hollande, and the former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon at Paris on November 30, 2015, on the sidelines of the Conference of Parties (COP) 21, of the U.N. Framework Convention on global climate change.
The Paris Declaration establishes ISA as an alliance dedicated to the promotion of solar power among its Member Countries. As an action-oriented organisation, ISA intends to compile member countries to aggregate demand and realise economies of scale, leading to reduction of costs of solar applications, facilitating the deployment of existing solar technologies at scale and promoting collaborative solar R&D and capacity. As on June 26, this year, the ISA Framework Agreement has been signed by 86 countries, with 67 having also deposited instruments of ratification.
(Venkatesh Iyer)