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....
Sustaining Clean Energy Access through Microfinance
Access to adequate, affordable, reliable, safe and environmentally friendly energy is crucial to achieving India's Sustainable Development Goals and improving the lives of people who have historically lacked such access....
This policy brief looks at the current market situation for off-grid solar technologies in India and the current barriers to an enabling business environment for solar....
This note summarises key messages from the fifth edition of the India Clean Cooking Forum (ICCF) organized by the Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN), in partnership with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and NITI Aayog at New Delhi on October 24-25, 2017. The event was supported by GIZ, Tata Trusts, World Bank and Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC). Participants include clean cooking energy practitioners involved in solid biomass stoves, biogas, LPG, solar cooking; representatives of MNRE, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG)and NITI Aayog as well as numerous financial and research institutions....
