Training Module 1 – Enabling Service Enterprises with DRE for productive uses
A productive use can be defined as a routine economic activity undertaken in rural or urban areas to create and deliver a product or a service that has a commercial sale value to it. The goods or services are produced for the market, manufactured at a larger scale as compared to those meant for domestic consumption and sold for revenue generation and livelihood support....
This document briefly summarizes takeaways from CLEANs year-round consultations and engagements with various stakeholders from the clean cooking sector, culminating into the seventh edition of the India Clean Cooking Forum (ICCF) held on the 3rd of December 2019 at India Habitat Center, New Delhi. ICCF 2019 was organized in partnership with NITI Aayog, ENGIE, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation and Good Energies Foundation....
COMPENDIUM OF DECENTRALISED RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Decentralised renewable energy (DRE) entrepreneurs have been at the forefront of servicing energy requirements of the un-served and under-served population in India and other countries where energy security remains a concern. Access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy has catalysed innumerable lives at the grassroots by creating opportunities for better livelihoods, increased income levels, safe and healthy living conditions, leap-frogged education opportunities and empowered women by eradicating drudgery at many levels....
Memorandum on VAT abolition for Renewable Energy devices
There are a large number of areas in the State of Karnataka that are either unelectrified or receive unreliable electricity supply. Decentralized renewable energy systems are ideal means of providing reliable, clean energy access to communities in these areas. In the recent past, State and Central Governments have initiated a number of measures to improve energy access at the local level. However, as of today, Renewable Energy devices and spare parts in the State of Karnataka attract 5.5% VAT....
