Prof KK Pant, Director, IIT Roorkee, inaugurated two new labs – Renewable Grid Integration Laboratory and Green Hydrogen Laboratory at the Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy (HRED). HRED has developed these labs with an aim to ensure that the Department and IIT Roorkee play a major role in reliable, resilient and Atmanirbhar transition to a clean energy grid in India. 

The director also visited laboratories of HRED that are pursuing transformative research in all aspects of renewable energy, including hydropower, energy storage, solar energy, biomass energy, management of water bodies and energy systems modelling. Prof Arun Kumar and Prof Sunil Singhal also showed other various labs to the Director - Prof KK Pant and Deputy Director - Prof UP Singh and had discussions.