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IESA ‘’Women in Energy’’ initiative is for Connecting, Educating, Inspiring, Networking & Empowering Women in #CleanEnergy transition and especially promoting this participation in the emerging areas of advanced energy storage technologies as well as eMobility sector in India.

In this special episode, Dr Shalini Sarin shares her own experience of being part of energy sector for over 3 decades, Social impact of women empowerment, importance of women entrepreneurship, training & linking CSR activities to livelihood of the communities. She talks about the program on women e-Rickshaw entrepreneurs and her new start-up venture in eMobility sector. She advises young entrepreneurs to focus & be competent on what they are good at and collaborate with other ecosystem partners instead of doing everything themselves.

Dr Shalini also recommends a book ‘’Price of Inequality’ to our listeners.

As the fuel prices are reaching a new high every day, it is high time for us to think and take actions to help reduce the dependence on imported fuel. Government is facilitating the eMobility transition by various supportive programs, policies & awareness campaigns like ''Go Electric''. The introduction of green tax along with approval to the scrappage policy is in line with various other initiatives undertaken by the Government for curbing pollution.

With the introduction of EV adopter’s Circle, India Energy Storage Alliance is supporting corporates to adopt emobility & setting up EV charging Infrastructure.  

IESA is providing complete 360-degree overview of eMobility sector in the upcoming India eMobility Conclave on 25th February, bringing all the stakeholders to the unique platform to connect, share & network.

‘’ Change has been a factor of motivation for all the family members’’, says Mr Anshul Gupta, Director-Okaya Power group, one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of EV charging stations, lithium-ion batteries and lead acid batteries in India.

Anshul shares companies’ efforts & strategy towards indigenization to reduce the reliance on imported products, focus on internal R&D, companies roadmap of setting up EV charging stations across the country, as well as brining new innovative products to the market.

 Anshul also shared the journey of Okaya group from humble beginning around 3 decades ago to becoming multi billionaire group today.

Mr Vikar Gulati, Country Head & Senior Vice President at Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private limited, shares insight on Toyota's journey from hybrids to plan on moving to zero emission vehicles. He talk about Toyota's plan & commitment for 'Make in India'. He also shares his views on tax policies and vision about transition towards sustainable mobility. India Energy Storage Alliance is working on enabling faster adoption of eMobility in India using all types of electric vehicles including battery electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.

2020 learnings: Embrace humanity & sustainability!

Don’t Take Anything for Granted. It is easy to assume that things will go in a certain way and to take granted what we have. We should take out moments to Appreciate everything that we have and be grateful. 

We will emerge stronger as a community and the coming decade will help us move towards the more sustainable environmental goals.

Wishing all our listeners Happy, Healthy New Year! Stay connected, Stay Safe!!

UNIDO has launched 2020 innovation challenge in the “Electrical Energy Storage Devices & Systems” vertical under The Facility for Low Carbon Technology Deployment (FLCTD) programme on 1st November.

PLUSS advanced technologies, one of the winners of UNIDO’s 2018 challenge under space conditioning category of FLCTD program, shares experience of being a part of the program, how program helped them demonstrate their technology and boost the confidence, got exposure to larger market segment in India and overseas. The program also helped them build credibility and confidence to the future adopters.

The last date of application is 18th December, 2020

Application Link : https://www.low-carbon-innovation.org/electrical-energy-storage?

 

India Energy Storage Alliance thanks NITI Aayog & congratulates Mr. Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog for the leadership role in shaping the National Mission for Transformative Mobility and National Programme for Advanced Chemistry Cell Battery Storage Manufacturing.

''Energy storage is emerged as Indispensable technology disruption....The next wave of job growth in energy sector is in energy storage as it will transform many sectors like mobility, grid stability, consumer electronics etc....'' says Mr Amitabh Kant at IESA Industry Excellence Award Ceremony.

NITI Aayog has floated draft model bid documents for setting up ACC (Advanced Chemistry Cell) units in India under the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme. IESA is collating the comments from IESA members and all stakeholders on the draft bid, which will be submitted to NITI Aayog in the first week of December.

Dr Ashwini Aggarwal, Director, Applied Materials India shares insights from the World’s largest tool maker/ equipment semiconductor company.

Do join India Energy Storage Week, starting from 2nd November to get 360 degree overview of energy storage & EV in India. Register at www.indiaesa.info

Mr Sandeep Tondon, National Programme Manager at UNIDO, shares insights about UNIDO’s innovation challenge. The winners get opportunity to receive financial support of upto $50,000, for the industry validation of ESS & eMobility solutions, which will help them move closer to the commercialization.

Also at India Energy Storage Week, IESA start-up competition winners will get opportunity to present at the investment summit on 6th November. Please check the details.

Covid-19 pandemic has been a big eye opener for the entire world. Everyone learned that we do not have to always look for incremental change but can adopt to drastic changes as well. Energy Storage & eMobility topics are very much relevant in today's scenario. The WESD Global virtual conference gives opportunity to all the stakeholders hear from thought leaders across the world, sharing their experiences, their vision & goals. This will be the platform for collaboration to accelerate the adoption as well as exchange ideas beyond the boundaries of countries and continents. Be the part of this transition towards greener grid & cleaner air !!

Join us for the WESD at https://worldenergystorageday.dreamcast.in/