The Union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today gave its approval for a cooperation agreement between Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and Denmark’s Ministry for Energy, Utilities and Climate.
The pact allows strategic cooperation in renewable energy with a focus on offshore wind energy and a Letter of Intent to establish an Indo-Danish Centre of Excellence for renewable energy in India. The agreement was signed in March this year.
“The areas of cooperation would include technical capacity building for management of off¬shore wind projects, measures to develop and sustain an efficient wind industry, onshore as well as offshore; measures to ensure high quality of wind turbines, components, and certification requirements; forecasting and scheduling of off-shore wind,” an official statement said.
The Centre of Excellence in Integrated Renewable Power would work on renewable energy resource assessment with a focus on the onshore and offshore wind; hybridization of wind, solar, hydro and storage technologies; integration of renewable energy and high level of wind energy, Testing and R&D; and skill development or capacity building.
The signing of the documents is expected to help in strengthening bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
