Parliament passes bill to build Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy

In India, Parliament lawmakers discussed ways to decrease the country’s reliance on fossil fuel and increase renewable energy and biofuels and overall energy independence. At Friday’s session, they also discussed the approved bill to set up an Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy to help achieve those goals, saying the government needs to do more to achieve energy independence and keep up with other countries’ developments in the renewable energy, biofuels and biomass sectors.

The IIPE already has a constructed foundation and will be built on about 200 acres of land that was set aside for it at Sabbavaram Mandal in the Visakhapatnam district. The IIPE will have courses in petroleum and energy studies and is temporarily being hosted at the Andhra University campus where they have two programs in petroleum engineering and chemical engineering.