ICER dedicated to the Nation

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at Bengaluru is doing research on clean coal, the final product from which could be a game changer for India’s energy needs.

“The breakthrough research being pursued at IISc in clean coal domain could potentially be game changer for meeting the energy needs of the country in terms of higher efficiency and capacity at lower operating costs and size,” Science and Technology Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan said on 16 September 2019.

“I am sure this would result in research, development and demonstration of state-of-art tools, products and processes which are of critical importance for our energy security,” added Dr Vardhan at the inauguration of National Centre for Clean Coal Research and Development (NCCCR&D) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru.

Dr. Harsh Vardhan also dedicated an Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER) to the Nation which is India’s first of its kind centre equipped with state-of-art facilities for conducting wide spectrum of energy research by knowledge network of elite researchers.

“I am sure all these intense scientific efforts and collective endeavors would enable us to realise the vision of an affordable, efficient, compact reliable Clean Energy systems which will be robust and suitable in diverse geographic conditions,” said the Minister.

“The Government will be facilitating all such efforts and complementing and supplementing both in terms of technical knowledge and finances, adequately for strengthening ICER, in particular and scientific community in general,” he assured. fiinews.com