Dr. Jitendra Singh inspects upcoming 'Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion' (OTEC) Project in Lakshadweep, first of its kind in the world

• OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) is a marine renewable-energy technology that exploits the temperature gradient between warm surface seawater and cold deep-sea water (>1,000 m depth) to generate power and, in hybrid designs, desalinated water.
• India's first OTEC-powered desalination plant is being built at Kavaratti, Lakshadweep, by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) — billed as "first of its kind in the world" for an operational OTEC-desalination integration.
• Relevance: GS-III (energy, S&T, environment), Prelims (institutions, schemes, geography of UTs).