Roadmap for greening and strengthening horticulture in meghalaya through DRE integration
CLEAN is deeply grateful to the following authorities for their support and suggestions on the report: • Shri. Abu Taher Mondal, Minister - Community & Rural Development Department...
Findings from the workshop on energy and agriculture for smart villages in India
Agriculture continues to be central to the lives and economies of rural communities in India. Many of those communities have little or no access to modern energy services. These realities motivated the holding of the workshop “Energy and agriculture for smart villages in India” in September 2016 at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Patancheru, Telangana, India....
Portable Emission Measurement System (PEMS) for Field Testing of Cookstoves
Traditional solid-fuel cookstoves, or ‘chulhas’, are known to be a source of air pollutants. Nevertheless, these chulhas are used by a large number of rural households in developing countries. Efforts to improve the energy efficiency and reduce emissions are reported in several studies. Literature survey and experience also point to large deviations in emission levels when measured in the lab and compared with the field results....
Training Manual on Financial Literacy for Decentralised Renewable Energy Enterprises
This manual on Financial Literacy for Decentralised Renewable Energy Enterprises has been compiled by Friends of Women’s World Banking. As one of its mandates, CLEAN seeks to address financing challenges faced by energy enterprises in India. Financing (Debt, equity or grant), by far has been one of the most critical barriers to scale up for most of the DRE enterprises as most of them lack fixed assets that are considered acceptable forms of collateral by Financial Institutions (FIs). Financing to such enterprises is perceived to be risky due to the market segment they cater to (often poor and underserved)....
