Integrated Clean Energy Material Acceleration Platform & funding for Hydrogen Valley Platform
- 3 Integrated Clean Energy Material Acceleration Platforms were launched at the MI Annual Gathering session, where new Energy Innovation Collaborations were announced.
Material Acceleration Platforms
It would leverage emerging capabilities in next-generation computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and robotics to accelerate the pace of materials discovery up to 10 times faster.
- Set up by the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
- The platforms constitute a knowledge network of more than 38 elite institutions and 80 research personnel working on next-generation low-cost advanced energy materials.
Hydrogen Valley Platform
It is a global initiative to optimize the hydrogen demand and supply by onsite generation and utilization. It utilizes renewable resources effectively, and water excess areas with geographical identity.
- The H2 Valleys objectives will be achieved through cohorts of clean hydrogen valleys to combine the complete hydrogen value chain.
- The aim would be reaching critical scale and unlocking learning curve effects.
- DST has committed to facilitate the delivery of three clean hydrogen valleys in India by 2030.
Mission Innovation (MI)
It will bring together governments from every continent, international organizations, and private sector investors to spearhead the global investment and collaboration needed to achieve tipping points in making clean energy technology affordable and accessible worldwide.
- To build a network of senior clean energy innovation leaders.
- It focuses on maximizing long-term impact through partnerships and capacity building and continuing to position MI as the key international clean energy innovation forum.
- MI 2.0 marked a crucial opportunity to agree on the actions needed in the decade of global clean energy innovation.
- Five out of a total of seven Missions have been launched over the past year.
- It is Focusing on power systems, hydrogen, shipping, urban transitions, and carbon dioxide removal, the missions resolved to accelerate technologies to facilitate clean energy transitions.
- MI Missions have the potential to unlock affordable decarbonisation pathways for sectors responsible for 52% of current global emissions.
3 Integrated Clean Energy Material Acceleration Platforms
| Initiative | Objective |
|---|---|
| DST-IISER Thiruvananthapuram Integrated Clean Energy Material Acceleration Platform on Storage | The consortium of 14 R&D institutes set up at IISER aims to accelerate the development of Solid-State Battery technology using Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence through automated processes. The center would leverage the expertise and knowledge toward solid-state battery research. |
| DST-IIT Hyderabad Integrated Clean Energy Material Acceleration Platform on Bioenergy and Hydrogen | Aims to accelerate the development of ultra-efficient commercial biomass and waste-water to hydrogen conversion and storage systems through accelerated discovery of novel catalysts, novel storage systems and materials and optimized plant condition designs. The project will be implemented jointly between a team of scientists from 09 partnering institutes. |
| DST-IIT Kanpur Integrated Clean Energy Material Acceleration Platform on Materials | The objective of this platform is to design materials for energy harvesting by employing quantum and classical mechanics enabled atomistic simulations and AI & ML algorithms. The network of researchers engaged in the platform comprises scientists from 13 elite institutions. |
Exam Track
Prelims Takeaway
- Material Acceleration Platforms
- Hydrogen Valley Platform
- Mission Innovation (MI)
Mains Takeaway
Q. The Integrated Clean Energy Material Acceleration Platform is playing a vital role in boosting advancement of AI, Machine Learning and next generation technology. Analyze.