Speakers: Dr Sachin Nimbalkar & Thomas Wenning (Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL)
Sustainable Cooling and Refrigeration
Facilitate thermal comfort, health, and food security for India, while creating a low carbon and resilient infrastructure
Sustainable Cold-chainPromote sustainable cold-chain development for reducing food loss, ensuring food security and farmers welfare.
- Mapping low-carbon and affordable technologies with sector needs and gaps
- Evidence-based solutions through lighthouse projects
- Scaling-up deployment through innovative business models and financing
- Awareness and capacity-building of stakeholders on cold chain system
- Integrating decarbonisation and energy efficiency guidelines and
standards in the policy and financing framework
Space CoolingStrive towards India’s thermal comfort needs by promoting innovation, deployment and market adoption of advanced and energy efficient space cooling technologies.
- Inform and guide the policy discourse on cooling
- Facilitate establishment of cooling excellence centres and
knowledge hubs - Scaling-up manufacturing and deployment through business
models and financing - Behavioural changes for responsible energy consumption
- Technical research on novel cooling technology solutions