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The International Solar Association (ISA) is providing support to Bangladesh for the development of a ten-year solar roadmap to facilitate the transition to renewable energy.
Remesh Kumar, the Chief of the Program and Project Implementation Cluster at ISA, mentioned, "We are participating in the solar roadmap project as consultants. It is a comprehensive document, and we are evaluating various scenarios to enhance solar adoption. The entire system will incorporate more solar energy." This statement was made during a recent meeting with a media delegation from Bangladesh.
Bangladeshi journalists paid a visit to the ISA secretariat located at the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) campus in Haryana, India. ISA's Chief of Operations, Joshua Wycliffe, delivered the welcome address on behalf of Director General Ajay Mathur.
During his speech, Joshua Wycliffe highlighted the close collaboration between the International Solar Alliance and Bangladesh in promoting solar energy as a solution in the battle against climate change.
"Bangladesh has been among the earliest supporters of the ISA, having joined as a Member Country in 2016, and is now a Vice-President country for the Asia and Pacific Region for a tenure of two years," he said.
Bangladesh and Tuvalu are currently co-chairing the ISA Regional Committee for the Asia Pacific Region. During the fifth meeting of the committee, Bangladeshi state minister for power and energy Nasrul Hamid had lauded the role of ISA in clean energy transition by deploying solar energy solutions.
"The ISA has nine comprehensive programs that cover a wide range of sectors, including agriculture, health, transportation, storage, green hydrogen and more. All aimed at harnessing the potential of solar power," he said in an ISA release.
In the media release, ISA director general Dr Ajay Mathur said that Bangladesh has significantly promoted solar energy applications, particularly on rooftops.
"We are strengthening our collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh to extend assistance through various programmes on solar adoption and building collaborative efforts towards achieving sustainable energy goals," he said.
Mathur has hoped to build institutional capacities, mobilise investment and scale up solar adoption. In collaboration with ISA, Bangladesh is working to create a pipeline of bankable solar projects and attract investments. The partnership has committed to contributing to accelerate the journey towards access to energy, climate change and Paris agreement.
India and France conceived the ISA as a joint attempt to mobilise efforts against climate change by deploying solar energy solutions.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the then French President Francois Hollande jointly launched ISA at UN Climate Change Conference in Paris on 30 November 2015.
ISA has been promoting solar power as means for a sustainable transition to a carbon-neutral future.
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