This report sets out to boost entrepreneurial activity and private sector investment in renewable off-grid energy (OGE) by assessing the market, identifying business models with the greatest potential to achieve scale, and recommending investments that will be catalytic for the sector....
Clean, Affordable and Sustainable Cooking Energy for India
Over the last decade, the number of domestic LPG connections in the country, and concomitantly the associated subsidy outlay, has increased at an unprecedented rate. The rising subsidy burden and high import dependency for LPG are posing challenges to current account deficit and nation security....
Ecosystem Creation For Off-Grid Solar: Achieving Diffusion Across India
Despite the launch of the National Solar Mission and its ambitious targets for the diffusion of solar energy in India by the Government in 2009, diffusion of off-grid solar has yet to take off in a number of states across India. Service providers and Regional Rural Banks have managed to combine their efforts to create successful financing mechanisms for solar home lighting in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, but in other states the market for off-grid solar remains nascent....
Nearly two billion people – that’s three in every 10 people – lack access to reliable and affordable modern energy, constraining their health, education and earning potential. Of this group, 60% live entirely without electricity for cooking, lighting and heating at home, for community services such as schools or health centres, or for improving the productivity of small business and farms....
