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At the 2nd Mission Innovation Ministerial and 8th Clean Energy Ministerial held in China: India has announced mounting a National Mission on advanced ultra supercritical technologies for cleaner coal utilisation at a total cost of US $ 238 million and setting up of two Centres of Excellence on Clean Coal Technologies at US $5 million each. In its quest for cleaner fuels, a National Mission on methanol and di-methyl ether is being mounted. A new centre on solar photovoltaic, thermal storage and solar fuels research has been approved ∼ US $ 5 million.

Funding opportunities have been announced in the area of energy storage, clean coal, wastewater treatment amounting to US $ 10 million. India also announced two MI-centric Funding Opportunities in Smart Grid and Off grid Access at US $ 5 million each. Joint virtual Clean Energy Centre with UK and Indian Government funding of UK £ 5 million each has been initiated. Under the Indo-US Joint Clean Energy Research (PACE-R) the new collaborative public private programme (PPP) on Smart Grids & Energy Storage has been approved.