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Union Minister for Power and Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Manohar Lal led the Indian delegation to the G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial Meeting at Houston, USA from 14 to 16 September 2026, under the U.S. G20 Presidency.
The meeting worked across three pillars: Energy Security and Affordable Baseload; Permitting and Regulatory Efficiency; and Critical Minerals and Resilient Supply Chains.
Outcomes included the G20 Statement on Advancing Clean Cooking Access, a Permitting and Regulatory Efficiency Symposium, the G20 Water Reuse Initiative and the G20 Critical Minerals Meeting Communique.
India reported installed generation capacity of 552 GW, more than half of it non-fossil, and reiterated its Net Zero by 2070 goal.
Secure India's supply of critical minerals across the value chain from exploration and mining through beneficiation, processing and recovery from end-of-life products.
Key: Launched January 2025 under the Ministry of Mines with Union expenditure of Rs 16,300 crore and expected PSU investment of Rs 18,000 crore over 2024-25 to 2030-31. India's critical minerals list, released in 2023, names 30 minerals including lithium, cobalt, graphite and rare earths.
Provide LPG connections to women in poor households, the domestic counterpart of the clean-cooking access discussion.
Key: Launched on 1 May 2016 from Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, and implemented by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Cut approval time and raise predictability for infrastructure and energy projects - India's contribution to the permitting pillar.
Key: PARIVESH is the single-window portal for environment, forest, wildlife and CRZ clearances; PM Gati Shakti is the National Master Plan for multi-modal infrastructure planning.
The G20's standing track on energy security, access, affordability, efficiency, renewables and finance
Autonomous intergovernmental organisation on energy security, set up after the 1973 oil shock
Treaty-based alliance promoting solar deployment, launched by India and France at COP21, Paris, in 2015
Alliance to accelerate biofuel uptake and trade, launched as an Indian G20 Presidency initiative
The LPG pathway endorsed at Houston is the one PMUY pursues at home, and household air pollution links it to India's non-communicable disease burden.
Rare-earth magnets and specialty materials sit in both the energy transition and the electronics supply chain, which is why the same mission is cited in mining and in manufacturing policy.
GS Paper 2 > International Relations > Important International Institutions, Agencies and Groupings
General Awareness > International Organisations and Summits
Consider the following statements: 1. The International Solar Alliance was launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015. 2. The Alliance includes all the member countries of the United Nations. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: 1 only
In which year was the "Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana" (PMUY) launched?
Answer: 2016
The minimum continuous level of electricity demand that must be met around the clock, and the reason dispatchable generation remains in energy security texts.
Minerals essential to a country's economic and strategic needs whose supply is at risk; India's 2023 list names 30.
A policy framing that sets an outcome without prescribing the technology used to reach it - the basis of the G20 clean-cooking statement.