The ‘Green Grids Initiative’ will be jointly launched by India and the United Kingdom at the ongoing COP26 summit in Scotland’s Glasgow. The project aims to build infrastructure around the world to harness solar energy in a more efficient manner, according to media reports.

Here is all you need to know about the upcoming project:

-The Green Grids Initiative is being led by the International Solar Alliance, an organisation flagged off by France and India at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference to promote solar energy.

-Director-General of the International Solar Alliance said that the project is based on the idea that the sun is always shining bright in some parts of the world.

-The grid that will be set up through the Green Grids Initiative will be designed to transfer the energy harnessed through the sun from one place to another, according to reports from Associated Press.

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-This is the first time an attempt to kick off a global network of solar power sharing has been adopted. However, the idea of a grid spanning across regions is not new. Experts have also compared the project as an attempt to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

-A potential challenge to the Green Grids Initiative would arise if the path between two countries is impassable, for instance, if the countries are not stable.

International Solar Alliance’s Director General Ajay Mathur said while explaining the principles behind the initiative, “when it is dark in east Asia, it is still light in India… If there was a cable between India and east Asia, that solar electricity could be provided to east Asia”, according to reports from Associated Press.

The project aims to start with a “coalition of the willing,” such as two countries that would mutually benefit from the transfer of solar electricity, he said. These countries would then have to decide how they want the interconnection to work and what rules would regulate it.