Unlocking Access to Finance for Decentralised Energy Solution
The challenge: Implement interventions to alleviate barriers to enterprise and end-user financing to promote wider implementation of decentralised renewable energy access solutions in India....
The Sustainable Energy for All initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) in 2012 has crystallized the global attention on the energy access challenge. It is estimated that about 1.3 billion people in the world in 2012 did not have access to electricity and 2.6 billion did not have access to clean cooking energies (WEO 2014)....
Role of Finance with a special focus on Microfinance in Enhancing Clean Energy Access
WWF-India has commissioned a study to measure/assess affordability of clean energy products in India, with an added impetus on exploring fi nancial institutions (particularly microfi nance institutions) as viable last mile channels to encourage adoption of clean energy products. The study covered 51 organizations, including microfi nance institutions, banks, funding and donors agencies, knowledge based organizations, government agencies and clean energy product suppliers....
This technology roadmap is developed to examine the consequences and opportunities of the power sector transformation in more detail. A range of measures support the integration of higher shares of VRE in the power sector, including interconnectors, demand response, smart grid technologies and new pricing mechanisms....
