New Delhi Feb 27 PTI The Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi in collaboration with World Resources Institute India will on Monday launch the Residential Electric Vehicle EV Charging Guidebook to simplify and enable the adoption of EV charging in all types of residential areas in the city an official statement said The document guides residential societies in understanding the importance of EV charging details the processes involved in planning installing and managing EV charging stations in the parking space of the societies the statement on Sunday said The document also addresses some of the common concerns such as lack of space capital investment power load management etc and shares the best practices for RWAs it added On the occasion Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot will also inaugurate two EV chargers at Pockets B C Vasant Kunj installed under the Delhi governments single-window facility The statement said that through the guidebook the Delhi government seeks to encourage all residential societies planned colonies DDA flats Cooperative Group Housing Societies government housing societies and employer housing to join hands with it in promoting electric vehicles by adopting EV charging in their residential societies By launching this step-by-step guidebook the Delhi government will become the first state government in India to make RWAs and residential areas an integral part of the EV movement RWAs across Delhi have expressed their interest to Delhi government of joining the EV revolution This guidebook will facilitate that journey and enable the people of Delhi to access EV charging points in colonies all over Delhi DDC vice chairperson Jasmine Shah said in the statement It also quoted executive director integrated transport WRI India Amit Bhatt as saying According to the US Department of Energy over 80 percent of EV charging happens at home Therefore having home charging is a must for scaling up EV and with the launch of this guidebook the Delhi government has closed the loop for developing the EV charging infrastructure for Delhi The Delhi government had announced the Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy in August 2020 with a vision to promote the adoption of electric vehicles in the city and to make Delhi the EV capital of India The policy aims to improve Delhis air quality by driving the transition to electric vehicles so that they can reach 25 of all new vehicle registrations by 2024 In line with this vision the government has taken several steps including directing all residential institutions with a parking capacity of 100 or more vehicles to reserve 5 of their parking space for EVs with suitable EV chargers with a minimum output of 33KW the statement said The Delhi Government also provides a grant of 100 per cent for the purchase of charging equipment up to INR 6000 per charging point for the first 30000 charging points as well as a special EV tariff for EV charging the statement said Owing to these progressive decisions Delhi is witnessing a rapid transition to electric vehicles Between September and November 2021 EVs accounted for 9 per cent of the vehicle sales in Delhi while the national average was 16 per cent the statement said PTI AKM CJ CJ

New Delhi Jan 22 PTI Experts from India and the US discussed the challenges and opportunities to combat climate change through technology-led carbon capture and utilisation solutions Carbon capture is capturing carbon dioxide before it enters the atmosphere transporting it and storing it for centuries or millennia The discussions were held at the Indo-US Scoping Workshop on Carbon Capture on Friday jointly organised by the Department of Science and Technology DST and the United States Department of Energy DST Secretary S Chandrasekhar said that at the recently concluded COP-26 in Glasgow Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought forth the countrys remarkable performance as well as ambitions to meet the climate goals despite being one of the fastest growing economy in the world The PM has given a mandate for all of us to become a net-zero emissions nation by the year 2070 Chandrasekhar highlighted in his opening remarks Under a strict climatic regime we can realise the identification and adoption of a right balance of portfolio of emission curtailment technologies he said Chandrashekhar said carbon capture utilisation and storage CCUS is among such key pathways to reduce emissions while continuing to develop sustainably at an unprecedented pace CCUS clearly aligns with five of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals SDGs He briefed the gathering about the recent initiatives of the Department of Science and Technology towards technology-led RDD in the area of CCUS He informed that India became part of the transnational multilateral platforms such as Mission Innovation and Accelerating CCUS Technologies ACT along with other member countries including the US for collaborative RDD in the area of CCUS He further added that the DST and the US Department of Energy are jointly organising these series of Indo-US Scoping Workshops on carbon capture utilisation and storage scheduled to be held from January 21 to February 25 for exploring the complementary strengths and gaps in the area of CCUS between the two countries and evolve collaborative technology-led endeavours for together working towards achieving net Zero Carbon goals Jennifer Wilcox Acting Assistant Secretary Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management FECM US Department of Energy said that India is a valuable partner in developing new technologies to help in combating climate and clean energy goals Wilcox gave an overview of the US initiatives regarding clean energy and said it is a global crisis and requires a global response in clean energy technologies and an international partnership to achieve carbon net-zero status She hoped that this workshop would provide an opportunity to broaden and deepen collaborations and engagements PTI UZM SMN SMN

Washington [US], August 13 (ANI): A new research by Cornell and Stanford University says that blue hydrogen may harm the climate more than burning fossil fuel.