The IISc and PFC have partnered to advance research in green energy and net zero technologies.
Story so far: On March 21, Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to construct a new energy research building to house the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER) on IISc’s premises.
- ICER’s avant-garde building will enable pioneering fundamental and applied research on energy. It will prioritise green hydrogen generation. Labs, seminar rooms, classrooms and prototype-developing facilities will inhabit the building.
- ICER will increase capacity building through PhD and Master’s programmes. It will organise programmes between academic and industry fellows.
Why it matters? ICER, conceived in 2012, collaborates with several domestic and foreign organisations. Its research on green hydrogen generation has reached the stage of real-world demonstration.
- It has established India’s first supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle. It will help generate clean energy from power plants.