Energy cooperation, which has become a vital part of Indo-US relations, has taken another leap with a $50 million collaboration to promote solar energy research.
The Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States (SERIIUS) has been set up by the Indian Institute of Science and the National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), part of the US Department of Energy.
Professor K. Chattopadhyay, the chairperson of the Materials Engineering Department at IISc, has been named one of the codirectors of the institute, along with L.L. Kazmerskie of the NREL.
The institute, through a formalised R&D structuture, aims to promote binational collaborations.
It all began with the the PACE programme, which was launched in 2010 by US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “SERRIUS is part of the PACER programme,” said Professor Chattopadhyay.
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