India will define post-Covid energy trends: Dharmendra Pradhan

NEW DELHI: India will account for more than a third of the growth in global energy demand for the next three decades and could potentially define the way energy trends take shape in the post-Covid world, according to oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
“It is imperative that we position ourselves well to handle the current energy challenges to be able to develop our strategies in the post-Covid-19 world. India, as world’s third-largest consumer of energy, has not only been impacted but also could potentially define how global energy trends would emerge,” Pradhan told an industry function on Tuesday.
This, he said, would need rebuilding the energy eco-system to make it “secure, clean, resilient and responsive” to the need of citizens. The government has been moving in that direction by widening its approach towards energy security beyond ensuring oil supplies to promoting other forms of energy and demand-side management through energy efficiency.