Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs & Food & Public Distribution, and Textiles Piyush Goyal has expressed confidence that India will play a leadership role in the area of renewable energy in the years to come.
Minister of Commerce & Industry further said 'battery technologies are going to be very important for our sustainability mission & for renewable energy to progress more, and we are investing heavily on batteries now.'
Talking about the progress made by the country in renewable energy, Goyal said that several decades ago, India was amongst the initial countries to promote hydro generation of power- 1st small hydro power plant started functioning in Darjeeling way back in 1897.