One Sun One World One Grid
Also called: OSOWOG, Green Grids Initiative · Topic: Energy Resources of India: Conventional and Non-conventional · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG) is a proposal India made in 2018 to link solar power across countries through grids that cross borders. The idea is simple: the sun is always shining somewhere. Different countries lie in different time zones. A shared grid could send solar power from places in daylight to places where it is evening or night. This would cut the need to store power. It was launched with the UK as the Green Grids Initiative at COP26 in 2021.
Example
Under this idea, solar power made during the day in a sunny desert such as the Thar in Rajasthan could flow west to countries where it is still morning. In return, India could get power from the west during its own evening.
Don't confuse with
- International Solar Alliance: a treaty-based group launched by India and France at COP21 in Paris on 30 November 2015, with its headquarters in Gurugram. OSOWOG is a grid idea, not the alliance.
- Green Energy Corridor (2015): power lines that carry renewable power within India only.
Related concepts
- Green hydrogen
- National Green Hydrogen Mission
- Green Energy Corridor
- Non-fossil share of power capacity
- Just energy transition
- International Solar Alliance