(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: One Sun One World One Grid

Topic: One Sun One World One Grid

Guest:

Mohan Kumar, (Former Ambassador)
Upendra Tripathy, (Director General, International Solar Alliance)
K. A. Badarinath, (Principal Advisor, Minister of Environment)

Topic Description:

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has issued a request for proposal for developing a long-term vision, implementation plan, road map, and institutional framework for its One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG) program. Back in 2018, speaking at the inauguration of the second edition of Global RE-Invest meet, PM Modi had stressed on the importance of solar with his slogan, ‘One World, One Sun, One Grid,’ through which the PM implied the coming together of the entire globe to harness solar power 24/7, thus not limiting the solar power to daytime alone. With India at the center, the solar spectrum is divided into two broad zones, namely, Far East, which would include countries like Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia. The far west would cover the West Asia and the African region. Through this initiative, India plans to build a global ecosystem of interconnected renewable energy resources that can be seamlessly shared for mutual benefits and global sustainability.