This report sets out to boost entrepreneurial activity and private sector investment in renewable off-grid energy (OGE) by assessing the market, identifying business models with the greatest potential to achieve scale, and recommending investments that will be catalytic for the sector....
Clean, Affordable and Sustainable Cooking Energy for India
Over the last decade, the number of domestic LPG connections in the country, and concomitantly the associated subsidy outlay, has increased at an unprecedented rate. The rising subsidy burden and high import dependency for LPG are posing challenges to current account deficit and nation security....
With more than a billion people lacking access to electricity, local power-generation solutions are essential to provide sustainable energy to all - particularly those consumers expected to remain isolated from national or regional grids for the foreseeable future....
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....
Renewable energy-based rural electrification: The mini-grid experience from India
The development of mini-grids based on renewable energy sources such as solar PV, biogas and small hydro has been a successful venture in India. The new report from the GNESD project, Renewable energy-based rural electrification: The mini-grid experience from India, authoured by Debajit Palit and Gopal K Sarangi, provides a review of this experience of mini-grid use in India by making specific references to successful cases....
India is one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change. With fossil fuels contributing to a large per cent of our energy needs, the situation becomes all the more precarious. 70 per cent of our electricity is being generated by coal based power plants, and the existing supply falls 10 per cent short during peak hours....
Nearly two billion people – that’s three in every 10 people – lack access to reliable and affordable modern energy, constraining their health, education and earning potential. Of this group, 60% live entirely without electricity for cooking, lighting and heating at home, for community services such as schools or health centres, or for improving the productivity of small business and farms....
Mini-grids have emerged as a game-changer for rapid, cost-effective, and high quality electrification in rural Africa. Under the right conditions, mini-grids can complement national grid electrification strategies for providing access to electricity....
