INDIA COOLING ACTION PLAN (ICAP)

About: 

• Objectives: 
  • Provide an integrated approach towards cooling and related areas including reduction in the cooling demand, in order to reduce emissions. 
    
    
  • Assessment of cooling requirements across the sectors in the next 20 years and the associated refrigerant demand and energy use. 
    
    
  • Map the technologies available to cater the cooling requirement including passive interventions, refrigerant-based technologies and alternative technologies such as not-in-kind technologies. 
    
    
  • Providing skill training to RAC (Refrigeration and Air Conditioning) service technicians. 
    
    
  • Develop an R&D innovation ecosystem for indigenous development of alternative technologies. 
    
    
  
  
  
• Targets: 
  • Curtailing the cooling energy requirements by 25-40 %, Reduction of cooling demand across sectors by 20-25 % and refrigerant demand by 25-30 % by 2037-38.  
    
    
  • Training and certification of 100,000 serving sector technicians by 2022-23.