New Delhi: As per the latest announcement made by HHSIF, the fortune 100 company has established its Global Center of Excellence for Affordable and Clean Energy (GCoE-ACE) on IIT Dharwad campus ground to work jointly on providing affordable and clean energy (ACE).
With the collaboration between IIT Dharwad and Honeywell Hometown Solutions India Foundation, both parties will work on a multi-year project. The project mainly focuses on developing affordable clean energy solutions to rural communities.
Referring to the initiative, Ashish Gaikwad, President, Honeywell India and Director, HHHSIF said, “Our partnership with IIT Dharwad seeks to find affordable and sustainable technology-driven solutions in clean energy for the betterment of our rural communities".
This will play an important part in supporting the "Government’s goal of meeting 50% of the country’s energy requirement from renewables by 2030,”
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The IITD and HHSIF newly established GCoE-ACE will be used by the researchers, innovators and incubators in finding solutions in the area of affordable and clean energy. With this initiative, rural communities will be able to change their lives for the better.
While explaining the benefits of the collaboration, Prof. P. Seshu, Director, IIT Dharwad said, “The partnership with Honeywell enables us to expand our work on SDG-7 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals”.
"The goals focus on affordable and clean energy as a means to create a multiplier effect since energy is a key input in income and economic progress. It also enhances healthcare, education, transportation, communication facilities in remote regions, while minimizing damage to the environment,” he added.
The first phase of the partnership will include installing the required equipment on the center which will be used in research and development work. Both HHSIF and IIT will work on developing an open-source platform to deal with grassroots-level energy-related challenges.
The GCoE-ACE’s resources will be used for doing in-depth research, testing, prototyping, piloting, and building channels for scale from the start. The center will work on incubating and designing engineering affordable, energy-efficient, and renewable energy-powered products.
At first, rural areas within a 200 km radius of the IIT Dharwad campus will be taken as a testbed where various implementations and development of the center will be tested. If the test result comes out to be positive, the products will be officially launched for rural communities.
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