India to push electricity in rural areas for cooking |
In a major push for India`s energy security efforts, India is planning to leverage electricity for cooking. The government plans to provide induction stoves to poor households in rural and urban India. According to power and renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh, this shift to induction cooking will not only bring the government closer to delivering on its promise to improve energy access, it will also generate fresh demand for electricity in the country, the lack of which is weighing down the entire power sector. He said that electricity is the future of India and most of its infrastructure will be powered by electricity. The Government has envisaged Power Foundation to be formed at the Ministry`s level, including cooking to completely run on electricity, which will allow our economy to be self-reliant and give us independence from imports. This move will help poor strata of the society by giving them access to a cheaper medium of cooking. The announcement comes in the backdrop of utilities looking to develop `round-the-clock` power supply, that may help bring down the electricity price for consumers and provide on-demand power from wind and solar projects. This assumes significance given India running what will become the world`s largest clean energy program with an aim of having 175 GW of clean energy capacity by 2022 as part of its global climate change commitments.
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