Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri co-chaired a virtual Ministerial meeting with U.S. Secretary of Energy Ms. Jennifer Granholm to launch the revamped U.S.-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership SCEP. The SCEP is launched in accordance with U.S.-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden at the Leaders Summit on Climate held in April this year.<br />''<br />''The SCEP organizes inter-governmental engagement across five pillars of cooperation, Power and Energy Efficiency, Responsible Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Growth and Emerging Fuels.<br />''<br />''Mr Puri and Ms Granholm reviewed the progress, major accomplishments, and prioritized new areas for cooperation under the various pillars.<br />''<br />''Mr Puri emphasized that the revamped clean energy partnership will intensify the efforts from both sides to take advantage of the complementarities that exist between US and India ' advanced US technologies and rapidly growing India's energy market, for a win-win situation through a cleaner energy route with low carbon pathways.<br />''<br />''The two sides announced addition of a fifth Pillar on Emerging Fuels, which signals joint resolve to promote cleaner energy fuels. A new India-US Task Force on Biofuels was also announced to build on the scope of work on cooperation in biofuels sector.<br />''<br />''US Secretary lauded India's renewable energy target of 450 Giga Watt by 2030 and offered to closely collaborate in realization of this target by India.<br />''<br />''The two sides also announced rechristening of Gas Task Force to India-US Low Emissions Gas Task Force, which would continue to forge collaboration between U.S. and Indian companies on innovative projects to support India's vision of gas-based economy.<br />''<span style="color: #000000;">The meeting also reviewed the progress on the India-US Civil Nuclear Energy cooperation.</span><br />