IEW 2025: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri says India's clean cooking gas model highly replicable in other Global South nations

Showcasing India's cleanable cooking state exemplary astatine the 2025 variation of the India Energy Week (IEW) successful the nationalist capital, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said connected Wednesday that the country's cleanable cooking state exemplary is not lone palmy but besides highly replicable successful different Global South nations, particularly those facing akin challenges related to vigor accessibility. Puri highlighted India’s singular occurrence successful ensuring cosmopolitan entree to cleanable cooking state done targeted subsidies, a beardown governmental will, lipid selling companies' digitisation of organisation networks, and nationwide campaigns promoting taste shifts towards cleanable cooking. The curate also chaired a ministerial roundtable connected cleanable cooking astatine the Yashobhoomi planetary normal and expo centre connected Wednesday, the 2nd time of the yearly IEW event. 

Participants included representatives from Brazil, Tanzania, Malawi, Sudan and Nepal, too manufacture leaders including the International Energy Agency (IEA), Total Energy and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), according to an authoritative release. 

Puri besides highlighted that nether the Narendra Modi government's PM Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), beneficiaries person LPG entree astatine a highly affordable outgo of conscionable 7 cents per day, portion different consumers tin avail themselves of cleanable cooking substance astatine 15 cents per day. This affordability has been a game-changer successful driving wide adoption, said Puri. 

During the session, planetary representatives shared their experiences and challenges successful expanding entree to cleanable cooking solutions.

Tanzania's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy Doto Mashaka Biteko outlined its strategy to alteration 80 per cent of households to modulation to cleanable cooking by 2030, leveraging subsidies and a premix of vigor sources, including LPG, earthy gas, and biogas. He besides acknowledged important challenges, including financing constraints, the precocious outgo of infrastructure, and the request for regulatory reforms to promote private-sector participation.

Sudan's Minister of Energy and Oil Dr Mohieldien Naiem Mohamed Saied emphasised the request for backstage assemblage engagement to span gaps successful LPG supply, arsenic the state inactive imports a important information of its vigor needs. Encouraging section cylinder accumulation and ensuring cost-effective imports stay cardinal hurdles successful achieving broader adoption.

Representatives from Rwanda and Nepal shared their efforts successful reducing firewood dependency done electrical stoves and biogas expansion.

IEA Deputy Executive Director Mary Burce Warlick said that India’s occurrence offers invaluable lessons for different countries, particularly successful dealing with challenges related to affordability, entree and infrastructure. Warlick besides said emphasised the relation of concessional financing and public-private partnerships (PPP) successful expanding cleanable cooking entree globally.

Highlighting India’s cleanable cooking transformation, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Partner Rahool Panandiker credited the country's OMCs for enabling last-mile LPG transportation done integer platforms, making adoption seamless.

Panadiker besides underscored the request for refining the cylinder refill exemplary to guarantee sustained usage and balancing affordability with economical sustainability.

The existent imaginable of star cookers...

Puri pointed retired that IOCL’s precocious star cookers, featuring integrated star panels, are priced astatine astir $500 per portion with nary further costs implicit their lifecycle.

While the existent terms constituent remains a situation for wide adoption, leveraging c financing and collaborating with the backstage assemblage could thrust costs down, making star cooking a viable alternate for millions, helium said. 

This inaugural aligns with the country's broader efforts to diversify cleanable cooking options beyond LPG, reinforcing its committedness to reducing reliance connected accepted biomass fuels and cutting c emissions.

India remains committed to supporting vigor entree initiatives worldwide 

Puri said that backed by astute subsidies and sustainable policies, the Indian exemplary provides a scalable solution for different processing nations striving to execute cleanable cooking access.

He besides said that achieving cosmopolitan cleanable cooking entree is not simply an economical imperative but a motivation one, taking into relationship the terrible wellness and biology impacts of accepted biomass cooking.