The United States on Wednesday joined the International Solar Alliance, changing into the one hundred and first member of the India-led initiative that seeks to make photo voltaic vitality accessible and inexpensive to all.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the event as “wonderful news”. “This will further strengthen the alliance in our shared quest for harnessing solar energy for a sustainable planet,” he stated in a tweet.
Wonderful information @ClimateEnvoy! I thank @POTUS and wholeheartedly welcome the USA to the @isolaralliance. This will additional strengthen the Alliance in our shared quest of harnessing photo voltaic vitality for a sustainable planet. https://t.co/vWlzCmws3q
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 10, 2021
US Special Presidential Envoy on Climate John Kerry submitted the becoming a member of doc on the India delegation workplace in Glasgow on Wednesday afternoon. “It has long been coming, and we are happy to join the International Solar Alliance, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the lead in making. We worked out the details and this is a process we are pleased to be part of,” Kerry stated.
ISA director normal Ajay Mathur stated, “The US’s endorsement of ISA’s framework and approach is a heartening development, especially as our 101st member nation which is a significant milestone in itself, demonstrating that nations across the world are recognizing the economic and climate-mitigating value of solar as well as this energy source’s potential as a catalyst for global energy transition.”
ISA is now formally an inter-governmental treaty-based worldwide organisation. Headquartered in New Delhi, it seeks to speed up the adoption of photo voltaic vitality by making it accessible and inexpensive, which it hopes to attain by aggregating the demand from all member international locations, standardisation of apparatus and expertise, and selling analysis and growth.
The affiliation of the United States with ISA can speed up this course of, ISA’s founding director normal emeritus Upendra Tripathy stated.
“US joining the ISA will greatly motivate many other countries also to join. It will ensure ISA’s financial sustainability and enhance its global climate change role. This is also the coming together of two great democracies of the world in a win-win collaboration to fight climate change and promote climate justice,” Tripathy stated.
When the ISA was launched in 2015 in the course of the local weather change convention in Paris, the US had been listed as a possible member, with then President Barack Obama expressing his nation’s need to hitch the alliance when the membership was to open the following 12 months. However, the Donald Trump administration had put these plans on maintain.
After the Joe Biden administration took over this 12 months, the US was broadly anticipated to hitch the alliance.
ISA has to this point facilitated the set up of 5 GW value of photo voltaic initiatives in member international locations. It has additionally launched the ‘One Sun One World One Grid’ (OSOWOG) initiative — an bold programme to create a linked photo voltaic grid at a worldwide degree in order that the ability provide is insulated in opposition to diurnal, seasonal and weather-related fluctuations that’s inherent in photo voltaic electrical energy technology.
Even earlier than it turned a member of ISA, the US had joined the steering committee of OSOWOG simply earlier than its launch on the Glasgow version of COP26.
