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The importance of INFINITE Conference in 2023

The workshop is broadly focused to bring together academic and industrial experts from France and India to develop synergistic collaborations especially in the area of clean and sustainable energy. The specific objectives are to create new contacts, identify specific partners to develop new knowledge base, joint IPs, and tangible outcomes in biomass energy, coal to methanol/ clean fuels, solar energy, hydrogen, energy storage, and carbon capture utilization and storage. The shared ambition is to pave the way for future technologies adapted to the needs and to undertake joint efforts required to reduce the cost of the proposed technologies. An additional important aim is the participation of a significant number of young scientists and students to be in close contact with outstanding scientists and industrials in this growing field.

Filling the gap between energy demand and energy supply is a great challenge for many countries. Though new technologies and new energy sources are introduced, rapid economic development in many countries like India has led to huge energy demands. France is one of the leading countries in the world that generates energy at a cheapest cost and exports lots of electrical energy. The country is planning for transition to low carbon energy sources. India being a tropical country endowed with abundant sunlight and wind energy resources. The country has matured solar and wind energy technologies. However, India has huge energy demand which is likely to increase by 2 to3 times in the coming two decades. There are lots of opportunities to adopt emerging technologies. Most promising and relevant new technologies are underground coal gasification, tapping the solar energy, developing hydrogen as a source of energy, biomass, carbon capture, etc. Both France and India are in a juncture to adopt major technological transformation to meet the energy challenges. This can be achieved by adapting matured, efficient, and cleaner technologies. Thus the proposed Indo-French workshop on Clean and Sustainable Energy Technologies (INFINITE) would be an excellent platform for the eminent scientist and industrialist to interact and deliberate on the technological gaps of these two countries and to design complementary strategies to meet the goals.