Clean and efficient cookstoves are being promoted in order to mitigate the health, environmental, and socioeconomic impacts of cooking with inefficient, traditional cookstoves in India....
The India Clean Cooking Forum (ICCF) was pioneered by GIZ in partnership with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in 2013 with the objective of convening a national platform to highlight the developmental imperative of achieving universal access and adoption of clean cooking energy for and by every Indian....
Framework to Shortlist Potential District for Setting Up Decentralized Biomass Pellet Plants
Biomass is renewable organic matter derived from trees, plants, crops or agro-industrial wastes. India annually produces about 870 million tonnes of a variety of biomass resources, which is comparable with coal production in the country. Availability of biomass is critical for further development and growth of bio- mass based energy systems....
Guidelines for Accreditation, Affiliation and Continuous Monitoring of Training Centres for the Skill Ecosystem
Skills and knowledge are the motivating forces of the financial growth and economic development of any country, and India is no exception. India currently faces a severe shortage of skilled workers as compared with other countries, and the accelerated economic growth has only increased the demand for skilled manpower....
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....
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....
