The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) have jointly launched the U.S.-India Renewable Energy Technology Action Platform (RETAP) under the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced RETAP during their meeting on June 22. The move underscores the two countries’ growing cooperation on emerging technologies to advance the clean energy transition.
RETAP was established to strengthen bilateral cooperation, focusing on technology-driven and time-bound outcomes, with a primary goal of accelerating the adoption and scale-up of emerging renewable technologies.
RETAP will initially focus on exploring green and clean hydrogen, wind energy, long-term energy storage, geothermal, marine/tidal energy and other emerging technologies to be mutually determined in the future.
The DoE and MNRE have outlined an initial work plan for the RETAP collaboration around five themes: research and development, piloting and testing of innovative technologies, advanced training and skills development, policy and planning on renewable energy and enabling technologies, investment, incubation and outreach programmes.
During the meeting, delegations shared information on their countries’ emerging technology developments, including hydrogen, energy storage, wind power, geothermal energy, marine renewable energy technologies and clean energy deployment programs.
