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The document discusses the future of renewable energy sources and their potential to meet global electricity needs over the next few decades. It covers topics like public support for different energy sources, the projected contributions of renewable technologies, potential hydrogen and other regenerative energy sources, the history of solar power, and Germany's new nuclear fusion reactor.
heavily on fossil fuel
Need to shift toward renewable energy
Government take initiative to increase share of
renewable energy
R&D and technology advancement help to make
renewable energy economical
Public private partnership play a crucial role
With proper policy and planning, India can meet
energy demand from renewable energy sources
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- India relies on fossil fuels for 80% of its energy needs but resources are limited and cause pollution.
- Renewable energy development is increasing, with solar and wind being major focuses. The National
Organic-Based Sources; Landfill Methane; Biomass energy; Hydropower ; Flowing water (Hydroelectric); Tidal power (waves and tides); Wave; Geothermal Energy (Geothermal power); Hydrogen Energy; Solar energy: (Energy from sunlight Rapid growing) ; Wind Energy
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Energy Storage in India: Applications in the Renewable Energy SegmentNeeraj Kuldeep
The report presents a comprehensive analysis of applications and associated limitations of energy storage batteries in renewable energy sector in India. The key drivers and barriers to energy storage technologies are discussed in detail. The report also highlights the key challenges faced by emerging battery technology companies (domestic and multinational) in India.
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Renewable energy in India: Awareness and AcceptanceVaibhav Sarangale
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3) An analysis of survey results including high awareness of solar but low awareness of the PALS campaign, and a factor analysis grouping effective environmental behaviors.
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India has significant potential for renewable energy from solar, wind, hydro, and biomass.
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The document discusses the future challenges and opportunities in solid waste management. Some of the key challenges mentioned are increasing waste quantities and changing compositions due to population growth and changing lifestyles, increasing environmental and health impacts of improper waste management, and rising costs of waste management due to more complex technologies needed. Limited policy frameworks and lack of political priority for waste management are also issues. However, the document notes that waste management also presents opportunities like waste minimization, energy and material recovery from waste becoming more viable, and potential for private sector involvement and job creation through recycling industries.
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The document discusses climate change and sustainable development. It notes that human development and population growth have accelerated greatly and are major contributors to global warming. Energy demand has also increased tremendously, with over 70% of supply coming from oil, coal, and gas. The document proposes that algae can help meet future energy needs as a renewable source of biodiesel and bioethanol. Algae have significant advantages over other crops as a biofuel feedstock, such as needing less land and water. However, more research is still needed to develop algae biofuel production at a large, commercial scale.
Tapuwa Dangarembizi - Investing in Sustainable Energy Unlocking Future Prospe...Tapuwa Dangarembizi
In an era of climate change and depleting fossil natural reserves, the necessity of channeling resources into sustainable energy sources has become indispensable at an international level. It is not only an ideal solution to halt the prevalent degradation of our environment, but also reveals an abundance of opportunities for those with an appreciation for investing in the future.
This document summarizes a seminar presentation on the green economy. It defines the green economy as increasing development without harming natural resources through cleaner industries and more efficient resource use. It discusses green economy indicators, initiatives in countries like China and India, and challenges to achieving a greener economy, including financial barriers and lack of environmental awareness. While a green economy may create jobs and markets for green technologies, critics argue it could increase costs for developing countries. The presentation concludes that green investments and policies are crucial for long-term environmental and economic sustainability.
A social enterprise advocates for sustainable environment, climate change, and green innovation with the goal of building a global community interested in protecting the environment. It meets objectives by connecting young people online and through climate summits, and researching degraded communities. There is tension between economic development and environmental sustainability as current energy and lifestyles over-exploit resources. The challenge is balancing economic progress with environmental protection while meeting a growing population's needs sustainably.
The BIOVALE project aims to set up a biodiesel production chain in Brazil's vulnerable semi-arid region to promote sustainable development, poverty alleviation, and social inclusion. A consortium of entities will organize the production from growing Jatropha plants to extracting oil. The end goal is to establish a socially responsible biodiesel industry in partnership with local communities and organizations, providing income opportunities while meeting energy needs in a renewable way.
This document summarizes key points from a presentation about ensuring organizational survival through sustainability. In 3 sentences: Global population and resource demands are increasing dramatically, putting pressure on the planet and challenging businesses. To survive long-term, companies must build an integrated sustainability strategy, take responsibility for social and environmental impacts, and innovate new business models. The presentation argues that project managers will play an important role in enabling organizations to successfully transform their operations and ensure sustainability.
Innovation in Society through Green\Eco-Friendly TechnologyIJMTST Journal
For manageability of the enveloping environment and to reduce human inclusion, green innovation is
utilized. Green innovation is thought is to frame stock which may be completely saved or reused. The
principal key points of green advances are to lessen waste and contamination commonly. Principally it
contains grouped ordinary cleanup stock, squander, innovations, vitality sources, wear and host of
others. Green procedures and advancements utilize sustainable and regular assets that never drain.
Advancement towards maintainable improvement needs changes at every residential moreover on the
grounds that the universal dimension. The overarching desire is that this field can bring curiosity and
development changes in diurnal lifetime of same size of information innovation. In addition, among the
possible region wherever these manifestations and development are required to come back from include
natural cultivating, unpractised vitality, green building development, eco-materials, and creating of
applicable stock and materials to help green business.
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strategic distance from surroundings debasement and help to supply a perfect domain for who and what
is to come. The paper conjointly talks about the opportunities and difficulties for un-practiced innovation in
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Water-Energy-Land-Livelihood (WELL) Nexus Report, June 2019Martin Scherfler
The distress facing the agriculture sector needs an integrated approach deriving a win-win solution for all the concerned stakeholders—water security and better livelihood for farmers, easing of the massive financial burden on the state and the electricity utility, and benefits to the public at large through job creation and lower emissions. Our analysis considers a three-pronged approach consisting of (i) grid-interactive solar PV (photovoltaic), (ii) energy efficient pumps (EE), and (iii) advanced irrigation technology (AI) at the farm level. It makes policy recommendations for a successful implementation of this approach.
The document discusses developing sustainable life support systems through social innovation and space exploration. It outlines Evan Thomas' background working for NASA and with non-profits on projects in Rwanda and Mexico. Thomas describes challenges with current development models and proposes social enterprises that apply technologies like water treatment combined with carbon credits to generate long-term funding for communities. This approach aims to address issues like lack of access to water and energy while demonstrating the relevance of space exploration.
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Renewable Energy And Social Enterprise In India Reasearch 2
1. Renewable Energy & Social Enterprise in India.
Research Project with
Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship - SBS. Oxford.
Kaustubh Ambavanekar- EMBA-6
Said Business School, Oxford.
2. Introduction
This is a research initiative to explore Social Enterprise (SE) activities in Renewable Energy
(RE). It illustrates that collaborative learning-by-doing by individuals across organisational
boundaries is key for the successful implementation of RE projects with help of SEs.
3. Purpose
“After years of
attempting to develop
renewable energy (RE)
mainly through large
private sector
initiatives, it is essential
to broadened its
approach to provide
more support for other
actors in this sector. The
purpose of this research
is to assess what role
social enterprise (SE)
activities can play in the
development of the RE
sector in the India.”
4. Objectives- Social Enterprise and Renewable Energy
Social enterprises can provide innovative solutions to achieve the global ambition to
dramatically increase the proportion of the world energy that comes from renewable
sources most effectively.
The strategy is to make substantial use of social enterprise models to deliver
renewable energy, with multiple benefits, learning from successes domestically and
internationally.
The specific steps suggested would enable the further development of the UK’s
renewable capacity to make the most of the opportunities social enterprise business
models provide.
That the Renewable Energy Strategy be implemented in the full context of the
government’s commitments on climate change and its other strategic objectives.
The programme should aim to promote sustainable business growth and new
business opportunities by enabling the establishment or further development of
social enterprises based on community scale renewable energy installations.
5. Mission
Social enterprise models need to offer
communities an opportunity to
contribute to changing the economics
of climate change as well as
advocating and informing changes in
individual behaviours. They need to
frequently deliver environmental
outcomes simultaneously to multiple
social benefits, such as employment
for those otherwise excluded from the
labour market and new community
assets. These models should present
opportunities for environmental
organisations to be more financially
sustainable, for existing social
enterprises to diversify and offer
environmental services and additional
means for policy makers to deliver
their environmental objectives.
6. Vision
Environmental social enterprises can operate businesses
ranging from community renewable energy through re-use and
recycling to environmental education.
9. Primary indicators
1.6 billion people- a quarter of humanity - live without electricity.
Region Millions without electricity (world bank development indicators 2008)
South Asia 706
Sub-Saharan Africa 547
East Asia 224
Other 101
Water problems affect half of humanity: Some 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate
access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation.
In developing countries some 2.5 billion people are forced to rely on biomass-fuelwood, charcoal and animal
dung-to meet their energy needs for cooking.
In sub-Saharan Africa, over 80 percent of the population depends on traditional biomass for cooking, as do
over half of the populations of India and China.
Indoor air pollution resulting from the use of solid fuels [by poorer segments of society] is a major killer. It
claims the lives of 1.5 million people each year, more than half of them below the age of five: that is 4000 deaths
a day. To put this number in context, it exceeds total deaths from malaria and rivals the number of deaths from
tuberculosis.
Approximately half the world’s population now live in cities and towns. In 2005, one out of three urban dwellers
(approximately 1 billion people) was living in slum conditions.
Source: World Bank Data & Statistics, accessed March 3, 2008
10. Rationale
“ Renewable energy technologies are essential contributors
to the energy supply portfolio, as they contribute to world
energy security, reduce dependency on fossil fuels, and provide
opportunities for mitigating greenhouse gases. Climate-
disrupting fossil fuels are being replaced by clean, climate-
stabilizing, non-depletable sources of energy”
12. RESE Applications
Energy
Solar, Wind, Hydro
,Bio Fuel And
Geothermal
energy
Waste Mgmt Agriculture
Recycling, BioTechnology,
Access and storage Access to clean
water, Irrigation
Social
Enterprise
Sustainability Education
Development Learning &
Manufacturing development in
Rural areas
Resources
Finance
Microfinance
13. Environmental sustainability is important to us all.
Sustaining the quality of our natural environment
and tackling the problem of climate change is
a huge challenge. Many social enterprises work to
provide environmental services including
renewable energy generation, recycling and reuse,
community transport, education and awareness
raising, and sustainable land management.
Environmental Sustainability
14. Many more have environmental concerns as part of their core social values and all social enterprises can
work to improve their environmental impact.
Environmental social enterprises offer the world a model where the results are truly triple bottom line:
environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. As awareness of the importance of combating
climate change and pressures on resources increase, there are tremendous opportunities for social
enterprise to make an even greater contribution.
Environmental considerations span the full remit of the Government, from national carbon reduction
targets to local authority commissioning of waste services. It is important to make clear to the
Government the key role that social enterprise can and should play in delivering on these aspirations.
Environmental Sustainability Results
15. An inside look at the making of a global energy service organization that produces wind
turbines locally to bring sustainable energy services and economic opportunity to
underserved regions of the world. Starting with proof of concept in Nicaragua, Mathias Craig
and blue Energy have their sights set on making a huge impact on the lives of the world’s
poor.
RESE Organisations
16. The Challenge: Change, Measure, Sustain
Change: Measure:
From population growth to Social businesses, green initiatives, and sustainability may seem
innovations in renewable laudable in their own right, but-
energies, we live in a world of
constant change. Is it now time 1. How do we measure progress?
for businesses and individuals to 2. And when we are talking about a sustainable future.
reassess their relationships with 3. what constitutes success? Perhaps more than any other, this is a
natural resources and the key issue facing governments, businesses, non-profits, and
globalized community? And, as communities today.
some experts have suggested, can
we do so profitably? The idea of Sustain:
change will be put to the test as
we reassess current capitalistic Sustainability has become a useful buzzword, but in the context of
structures and re-evaluate status rapid global change and technological innovation, what does
quo business models. sustainability actually mean? And how, as global citizens and
professionals, can we operate in ways that ensure the world’s
resources for future generations?
20. Electricity Shortage
India suffers from a severe shortage of electric capacity. According to the World Bank, roughly 40 percent of residences in
India are without electricity.
In addition, blackouts are a common occurrence throughout the country’s main cities.
One-third of Indian businesses believe that unreliable electricity is one of their primary impediments to doing business.
Further compounding the situation is that total demand for electricity in the country continues to rise and is outpacing
increases in capacity.
Adequate additional capacity has failed to materialize in India in light of market regulations, insufficient investment in the
sector, and difficulty in obtaining environmental approval and funding for hydropower projects.
In addition, coal shortages are further straining power generation capabilities.
In order to address this shortfall, the Indian government has set the goal of adding 90,000 MW of additional electric
generation capacity by 2012.
In light of these targets, the private sector is beginning to step up investment in the sector. For example, Uk-based Hinduja
Group, which already operates several power plants in the country, has pledged $15 billion towards the addition of 10,000 MW
of capacity over the next several years.
The country also grapples with electricity efficiency issues. In order to improve efficiency standards, the Energy Conservation
Act was passed in 2002, which established the Bureau of Energy Efficiency and has sought to promote efficient use of energy
and labeling of energy-intensive products.
It is also possible to import some electricity into India, as the country’s power grid is interconnected with the grids in Nepal
and Bhutan. This has allowed for the export of surplus electricity to India, however, this is not likely to prove sufficient to make
up for India’s lack of electric generation capacity.
21. Pollution and Co2 Levels
While high pollution levels were found over much of India, a concentrated pool of particles was
discovered over Bihar, a largely rural area with a high population density. Blanketing around 100 million
people, primarily in the Ganges Valley, the pollution levels are about five times larger than those typically
found over Los Angeles and can affect both human health and local climate. A large source contributing
to the Bihar pollution pool is the inefficient burning of a variety of biofuels during cooking and other
domestic use. Particles in the smoke remain close to the ground, trapped by valley walls, and unable to
mix upward because of a high-pressure system that dominates the region during winter.
25. R&D Expenditure & IPs
Share of various Ministries and departments in the public
R&D expenditure in India, Plan Period - 10th: 2002-2007
P activity by India both residential and non-residential.
28. Never before in the history of India, large
number of peasants (970 in 2001) resorted to
suicides since the later part of 1990s as the
economic policies have devastated the lives of
farmers. It has started in Andhra Pradesh State
and has spread over to Maharashtra, Madhya
pradesh, Punjab and other parts, which are the
highest food grown areas.
29. Indian Farmer suicide
Despite the fact that 60% of the population of India is involved in agriculture, “disastrous policies,
woeful access to affordable credit, greedy and corrupt middlemen, and indifferent administrations”
have created (and are maintaining) such an impossible credit and financial system for farmers that they
have been committing suicide in astounding numbers. The official statistic: since 1997, over five
hundred thousand (5000) farmers have killed themselves.
33. Global Warming
Increased temperatures will impact agricultural production. Higher
temperatures reduce the total duration of a crop cycle by inducing early
flowering, thus shortening the `grain fill’ period. The shorter the crop
cycle, the lower the yield per unit area.
35. Climate change is one of the most serious challenges India faces, with consequences that
go far beyond its effect on the environment. In this regard, the Indian government has
decided to reduce the carbon intensity by 24% from 2005 levels by 2020 and The National
Action Plan on Climate Change seeks to promote Sustainable development through use of
clean technologies.
Challenges
39. Renewable Energy growth in India
Since 2007, India installed 3,857 MW from wind energy; 619.53 MW from small hydro;
322 MW from biomass; 704.20 MW from bagasse cogeneration; 8.10 MW from solar energy; and
20.10 MW from urban and industrial waste to energy.
The year marks the beginning of India’s 11th five-year economic plan. Renewable energy
installations from the current economic plan account for 35 percent of all of India’s installation
activities
India’s renewable energy power generation capacity now stands at 15,789 megawatts following
government efforts to boost the sector.
The minister cited the allocation of 3.9 billion Indian rupees ($86 million) to different renewable
energy projects and programs starting in 2009.
40. Indian Policies
India has introduced policies and regulatory measures for renewable energy development, such as financial
incentives, capital subsidy and customs duties.
The country imposed preferential tariff for renewable power in strategic areas under its National Electricity Policy
2005 and national tariff policies. In 2003, the country set a fixed minimum percentage for renewable electricity
purchase through electricity legislation.
Further government efforts include a generation-based incentives scheme for wind power which lays a 0.5 rupee
per unit incentive for electricity fed into the grid.
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission is currently the centre piece of India’s renewable energy
development.
The program, launched in November, will boost deployment of solar energy systems and install 20,000 MW solar
capacity by 2022. The first phase of the mission targets grid connected solar power plants with a combined capacity
of 1,100 MW; equivalent off-grid solar applications of 200 MW; and solar thermal collectors that will cover an area
of 7 million square meters.
Currently, the Indian government is trying to spread public awareness on the necessity of generating power from
renewable energy sources.
The country plans to impose taxes on coal. Meanwhile, the World Bank has allotted $4 billion in loans for India’s
renewable energy projects.
42. Renewable energy certificate scheme- India
The Indian government is reportedly working on plans for a new renewable energy certificate (REC) scheme
designed to drive investment in low-carbon energy projects.
The scheme, which appears to be loosely modelled on the system of RECs in the US, would provide renewable
energy developers with an additional revenue stream while giving companies the ability to bolster their green
credentials by demonstrating that they have purchased renewable energy.
A central agency will be set up to issue and administer RECs, while renewable energy generators will be
allowed to sell the electricity at an above-market tariff set by local power regulators, or sell the electricity and
associated REC separately.
The country launched a feed-in tariff scheme for renewable energy last year and is also working on a high-
profile project, dubbed the Solar Mission, to deliver about 20GW of solar energy capacity in the next decade.
India added 2.33GW of grid-connected renewable power capacity during the year to the end of March,
according to a statement from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, more than doubling the rate at which
it installed renewables capacity during the previous year.
The record performance takes the country's total installed capacity of renewable energy to 16.8GW, far
outstripping the performance of many industrialised nations including the UK, France, Japan and Canada.
India has approved in principal an ambitious National Solar Mission to generate 200GW of the country's energy
from sunlight by 2050, but it apparently expects substantial funding to come from western nations.
44. Mission Features
Government of India has recently launched the ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission which aims to
promote the development and use of solar energy for power generation and other uses in the country. This Mission is
one of the eight key National Missions which comprise India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change.
The mission has a twin objective - to contribute to India's long term energy security as well as its ecological
security.The Solar Mission would be implemented in 3 stages leading up to an installed capacity of 20,000 MW by the
end of the 13th Five Year Plan in 2022. It is envisaged that as a result of rapid scale up as well as technological
developments, the price of solar power will attain parity with grid power at the end of the Mission, enabling
accelerated and large-scale expansion thereafter.
Mission will establish a single window investor-friendly mechanism, which reduces risk and at the same time,
provides an attractive, predictable and sufficiently extended tariff for the purchase of solar power for the grid.
The focal point for the grid connected utility scale power plants, for the Phase 1 of the Mission, will be the NTPC
Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN), which is the power trading arm of the NTPC. Government has designated it for the
purchase of solar power generated by independent solar power producers, at rates fixed by the Central Regulatory
Electricity Commission and for a period specified by the latter.
The mission includes a major initiative for promoting rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) applications. The solar tariff
announced by the regulators will be applicable for such installations. The power distribution companies will be
involved in purchase of this power. The mission would have a 'much focussed R&D programme’ which seeks to
address the India-specific challenges in promoting solar energy.
45. Mission Objectives
To create an enabling policy framework for the deployment of 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022.
To ramp up capacity of grid-connected solar power generation to 1000 MW within three years – by
2013; an additional 3000 MW by 2017 through the mandatory use of the renewable purchase
obligation by utilities backed with a preferential tariff.
This capacity can be more than doubled – reaching 10,000MW installed power by 2017 or more,
based on the enhanced and enabled international finance and technology transfer. The ambitious
target for 2022 of 20,000 MW or more, will be dependent on the ‘learning’ of the first two phases,
which if successful, could lead to conditions of grid-competitive solar power.
The transition could be appropriately up scaled, based on availability of international finance and
technology.
To create favourable conditions for solar manufacturing capability, particularly solar thermal for
indigenous production and market leadership.
To promote programs for off grid applications, reaching 1000 MW by 2017 and 2000 MW by 2022.
To achieve 15 million square meters solar thermal collector area by 2017 and 20 million square
meters solar thermal collector area by 2022.
46. Mission Objectives
To deploy 20 million solar lighting systems for rural areas by 2022.
The Mission underlines the Government’s intention to give a boost to solar energy and is a
purposeful step by India towards climate change mitigation“.
The Solar Mission forms a part of the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). An
analysis done by Greenpeace shows that the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission plan could
ensure an annual reduction of 434 million tons of CO2 emissions every year by 2050 based on the
assumption that solar will replace fossil fuels.
Incentives offered:
CERC has announced preferential tariff of Rs. 18.44 per unit for solar PV power and Rs. 13.45 per
unit for solar thermal power for 25 years;
Zero or concessional duty applicable on import of certain specific items;
Zero Excise duty on domestic manufacture of many solar energy devices and systems;
NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam will purchase solar power for a period of 25 years at a fixed tariff
announced by CERC;
CERC will review the costs every year and fix tariff accordingly for new projects.
48. Case Studies- India
SELCO India, a social enterprise that provides sustainable energy services to underserved
households and businesses in India, announced that it received a social growth financing
investment from an international consortium of leading social investors. The financing was led by
the Good Energies Foundation, a not-for-profit organization focused on the alleviation of poverty
through sustainable access to renewable energy, and also included the Lemelson Foundation, which
celebrates and supports inventors and entrepreneurs to strengthen social and economic life, and
E+Co, a non-profit investment firm that provides business support services and capital to energy
enterprises in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
GOOD ENERGIES FOUNDATION
The mission of the Good Energies Foundation is poverty alleviation through sustainable access to
renewable energy. A Swiss registered foundation, it is independent from, but affiliated with, Good
Energies, Inc.
49. Case Studies- India
NextGen, incubated at NSRCEL, IIM-Bangalore operates in two major domains - Emission
Management and Waste to Energy. We are the pioneers of carbon accounting in India and have
worked with some of the biggest companies across the globe on their footprint estimation, analysis
, reduction and low carbon strategy. We help organizations measure, manage, mitigate and
communicate the environmental impact of their operations, supply chain, products and events
amongst others.
NextGen has developed an in house biogas technology for decentralized organic waste to energy
application, focusing on urban needs of reliability, hygiene and aesthetic values. This technology is
currently being deployed across IT parks, university campuses, housing complexes and hotel chains
across India.
50. Case Studies-India
Envirofit International was established to develop well-engineered technology solutions to improve
the human condition on a global scale, with a primary emphasis on applications in the developing
world. Envirofit's goal is to develop and distribute well-engineered energy products that address
major environmental problems in the global emerging markets that traditionally have been
overlooked. Established as a U.S. tax-exempt corporation, Envirofit utilizes initial donations and
institutional support to fund product development and early stage product commercialization, and
then uses operating income to develop and expand its businesses. In the rank of organizations
developing products for "bottom of the pyramid" markets, Envirofit is unique in its utilization of the
same rigorous product-development methodology and protocols used by modern industry. This
requires rigor in areas like design, validation, manufacturing, quality control, supply chain
management, distribution, inventory management, and marketing. Envirofit's goal is thus to build
and operate self-sustaining businesses as an entrepreneurial, commercially-driven, independent,
non-profit organization.
51. Case Studies-India
The CleanStar Trust was established in mid-2007 based on the realisation that with appropriate
technical and financial support, the rural poor could become great champions in the fight against
climate change and environmental degradation.
Today, we are a resource centre for community-based agro-forestry, clean energy production, and
environmental education programs that engage and benefit the rural poor.
CleanStar Energy is a private limited company registered in New Delhi, India. The company was
launched in 2005 based on award-winning research at Oxford University. It now has offices in Pune,
Maharashtra and field sites in central and western Maharashtra.
CleanStar is proud to support the CleanStar Trust for Sustainable Development, an independent
non-profit group that helps the rural poor fight climate change.
52. Case Studies -Worldwide
Community Renewable Energy Ltd (CoRE) is a Social Enterprise. We know that many
communities have explored renewable energy and discovered that they lack the
resources to make this happen. We work with communities to develop systems that will
generate income and provide them with sustainable, secure energy supplies. In return
CoRE takes a stake in the companies set up; to recoup development costs and to support
the establishment of more community owned renewable energy systems.
The UK’s National Agency ECOTEC has awarded Embrace with one of the European
Commission’s flagship Transfer of Innovation projects. The project has been developed
over the years to address the need for qualified and well-trained people working in the
renewable energy sector. The project will be a platform to share the regional/ national
differences in vocational education and training (VET) within the renewable energy
sector
53. Case Studies- Cambodia
E+Co makes clean energy investments in developing countries. With 15 years of experience and
offices in 8 locations, E+Co's innovative business model provides lasting solutions to climate change
and poverty.
SME Cambodia and E + Co, a US non-profit renewable energy investment organization, have
established a new Cambodian renewable energy company. The new venture,SME Renewable
Energy Ltd., will promote renewable energy technologies and market biomass gasification power
generation systems in Cambodia and throughout the Greater Mekong region. SME-RE Ltd. offers
“turnkey” projects, including system design, project feasibility studies, project planning and project
financing, to rural electricity producers, agro-business processing enterprises and manufacturers
requiring stand alone thermal or electrical energy solutions. Primary markets include rice mills,
cashew processing plants, ice factories and noodle factories. Other potential customers are
companies that currently depend on high cost diesel and other petroleum fuels for thermal steam
generation, ceramic kiln firing and grain drying
54. Case Studies- Philippines
RuralLight is a youth-led social enterprise based in the Philippines that is focused on empowering
off-grid communities in pursuing sustainable solutions in renewable energy.
RuralLight is a Philippine-based, youth-led social enterprise focused on empowering off-grid
communities in pursuing sustainable solutions in renewable energy. The organization supports in
empowering off-grid communities and villages using renewable energy in part or wholly by
providing scalable solutions that support their local economies. This includes supporting local
produce by expanding their markets and engaging in community-centered product development
and deployment like bringing in products for the bottom of the pyramid. This context engages and
empowers the community to enhance their livelihood and expand their market.
Given that there are still about 2,400 villages still not electrified, there are avenues to provide
energy for these villages. One solution is to provide an electrified community center using a
renewable energy source or a mix of resources for a town not yet connected to the electric grid.
55. Case Studies- Barbados
Innogen Technologies is a social innovation enterprise specializing in alternative energy solutions
for small island economies. We are situated on the Island of Barbados, our focus is on developing a
renewable energy industry within the Caribbean Islands. it is not based on a business
entrepreneurship model but rather a social entrepreneurship model. seeking to address broad
grassroots economic problems that Caribbean people are facing, using innovative technologies,
solutions and processes.
Founded by Jerome Lemelson, one of U.S. history's most prolific inventors, the Lemelson
Foundation uses its resources to recognize and celebrate accomplished inventors, inspire and
mentor young people and grassroots inventors and entrepreneurs, disseminate technologies that
improve people’s lives and generate entrepreneurial opportunity, and research and share
information that illuminates the value of invention to society. To date, the Foundation has donated
or committed more than $150 million in support of its mission.
56. Case Studies-Nicaragua, France
blueEnergy improves lives in marginalized communities using a holistic approach to sustainable
energy and related fundamental services.
To ensure long-term operation, blueEnergy leverages international support to develop needed
infrastructure and human capacity and empowers local people by making them central figures in
the design, construction, and implementation of the energy systems and other solutions.
Ultimately, blueEnergy creates long-term value by linking its sustainable energy services to life-
improving energy uses such as clean light, water treatment, medicine storage, and ice making for
fish storage.
57. Case Studies- USA
RREAL has the unique mission of making solar energy available to people of all income levels. Solar
technologies present viable alternatives to fossil fuels that are both environmentally sound and
socially empowering. In order for solar to be widely embraced, it must be available to people of all
income levels. However, solar technology remains out of reach for many lower income households.
The cost of home heating is unpredictable, and has been rising every year for the last 30 years-
much faster than people’s incomes. Since low income families devote a greater share of income to
the necessity of heat, they are the most vulnerable to these increases and fluctuations in energy
costs.
58. Case Studies-Ethiopia
SOLAR-POWERED HEALTH POSTS TO PROVIDE VACCINES IN ETHIOPIA
Health stations offer the only opportunity for around 12,000 people in Ethiopia’s Midda Region to
meet their basic medical needs. The remote locations of these health stations make it extremely
difficult to guarantee the indispensable, uninterrupted cooling (between 2 and 8° C) of life-saving
vaccines. Hitherto, kerosene using generators provided the essential power. Yet, fuel supply
distribution is difficult, the often old engines are unreliable and fuel itself bears high permanent
costs. Thanks to the project’s installed solar PV facilities directly at the health stations, autonomous
power supply can be achieved. The high-tech installations guarantee a reliable and persistent power
supply as well as significant cost reduction.
59. Case Studies-Ethiopia
ELECTRIFICATION OF THE VILLAGE OF REMA/ETHIOPIA
Rema is a village with 3,000 inhabitants in the Midda Region in Ethiopia. Through a contribution by
Good Energies and other donors, Stiftung Solarenergie was able to equip every single house in the
village with a solar panel, a battery for energy storage and two LED lamps (which use very little
energy). These electric off-grid lights replace health damaging kerosene lamps, which are common
in this area. The success was so overwhelming that several surrounding villages approached the
Solarstiftung in order to be electrified in the same way.
The advantage of the solar system contrary to diesel generators, which aid organizations
traditionally have in their aid programs, is the independence from petrol prices and the delivery of
petrol to these remote areas.
60. Case Studies-Ethiopia
SOLAR-POWERED WATER PUMP REPLACING MANUAL WATER TRANSPORTATION
In the Midda region, people often have to walk many hours in order to have access to a source of
water and the walk from the plateau into the valley is usually steep. It is mostly the women and the
children who have to go on this laborious march which often takes seven to eight hours every day.
We helped to install the solar-powered water pumping system in the village of Rema, where the
women and children now no longer need to travel the difficult path into the valley for precious
water. The time they save is important: The children now have time, for example, to go to school
during the day.
62. World Potential Renewable Energy
1. Globally, renewable energy is
growing fast. The rates of
development for renewable energy
sources is far exceeding those of
fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and
natural gas.
2. In 2006, wind and solar
development grew by 20 and 40
percent respectively.
3. A recent report released by
Greenpeace and the European
Renewable Energy Council, states
that renewable energy can deliver
half of the world's energy needs by
2050.
4. Renewable energy will become
increasingly important as the world
attempts to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions to levels that scientists
predict are necessary to curb global
warming.
63. Global Renewable Energy Resources
Solar Wind
Fig 1.0 :The geographical distribution of the solar radiation Fig 2.0 Availability of standardized evaluations of the wind
incident on the earth's surface each year. energy potential
64. Global Access to safe drinking water
Fig 1.0 :The geographical distribution of the solar radiation Fig 2.0 Availability of standardized evaluations of the wind
incident on the earth's surface each year. energy potential
67. Wind Energy Capacity (Worldwide)
The BLUE scenario forecasts that wind energy will produce over 5,000 TWh of electricity per year
by 2050, accounting for up to 17% of global power production. Over one third of the resulting CO2
savings will be achieved in China and India.
70. Energy Consumption- World & India
Coal accounts for more than half of India’s total energy consumption followed by oil, which comprises
31 percent of total energy consumption. Natural gas and hydroelectric power account for 8 and 6
percent of consumption, respectively. Although nuclear power comprises a very small percentage of
total energy consumption at this time, it is expected to increase in light of recent international civil
nuclear energy cooperation deals. According to the Indian government, 30 percent of India’s total
energy needs are met through imports.
71. India’s Oil production and Imports
India lacks sufficient domestic energy resources and must import much of its growing energy
requirements. India is not only experiencing an electricity shortage but is also increasingly dependent
on oil imports to meet demand. In addition to pursuing domestic oil and gas exploration and production
projects, India is also stepping up its natural gas imports, particularly through imports of liquefied
natural gas. The country’s ability to secure a reliable supply of energy resources at affordable prices will
be one of the most important factors in shaping its future energy demand.
73. Energy Resources, Production and Capacity
India's Largest Hydroelectric Power Plants
Total Capacity
Power Plant State
(MWe)
Dehar Rajasthan 990
Sharavathi Karnataka 891
Koyna Maharashtra 880
Kalinadi I Karnataka 825
Nagarjun Sugar Andhra Pradesh 815
Idduki Kerala 780
Srisailam Right Bank Andhra Pradesh 770
Bhakra-Nangal Rajasthan 710
Salal Jammu & Kashmir 690
Kundah Tamil Nadu 555
75. Future Wind Energy Capacity (India)
The BLUE scenario forecasts that wind energy will produce over 5,000 TWh of electricity per
year by 2050, accounting for up to 17% of global power production. Over one third of the
resulting CO2 savings will be achieved in China and India.
77. HighDro Power generation
A graduating industrial design student at Leicester’s De
Montfort University (DMU) is hoping for award-winning success
with his innovative design which transforms falling wastewater
into electricity.
DMU Industrial design student, Tom Broadbent’s money and
energy-saving brainwave is called the HighDro Power and works
by harnessing the energy from falling waste water in the soil
pipes of high-rise buildings, converting it to electricity through
an ingenious device.
As well as having developed a potentially commercially viable
product, Tom is waiting to hear whether he will win accolades
from the Institute of Engineering Designers (IED) and the Dyson
Awards. He is also entering the Kevin McCloud Green Heroes
award to win the opportunity to show HighDro Power at the
NEC’s Grand Designs Live show.
The invention was developed in answer to targets set at the G8
Summit by governments to reduce their country’s carbon
dioxide emissions and dependency on fossil fuels for energy
production by 2050. In HighDro Power, the electricity can either
be utilised in the building to save £926-per-year for a seven-
storey building or sold back to the national grid on a buy-back
tariff.
78. Envirofit- EnviroFlame Combustion System
To achieve the desired health, environmental, social and economic
improvements, hundreds of millions of primitive stoves will need to
be replaced. From the outset, Envirofit has systematically set the
stage for this degree of global scalability and sustainability through:
enterprise-based business model driving economic self-
sustainability, voice-of-the-customer market research, disciplined
ground-breaking R & D, modern product development process,
robust durability and emissions testing, global supply chain
supporting centralized quality-controlled mass-manufacturing, multi-
tiered distribution & sales networks, location-specific marketing
strategies, partnerships with global organizations and local MFIs &
NGOs, and global awareness raising and brand building about
Envirofit and the problems we look to address.
In creating products for developing world customers, Envirofit
utilizes the same disciplined, mature product-development
methodologies used by modern industry. Compared to traditional
cooking fires, Envirofit cookstoves reduce emissions by as much as
80%, use up to 60% less fuel and reduce cooking cycle time by up to
50%. Built and engineered to address the unique cooking habits of
our customers, Envirofit clean cookstoves are a result of over five
years of market research, engineering R & D, emissions and
durability testing in coordination with Shell Foundation and Colorado
State University’s world-renown Engines and Energy Conversion
Laboratory. Envirofit International’s goal is to develop affordable,
aesthetic, well-engineered technology solutions that have significant
global health and environmental impacts and economic payback
incentives for our customers.
79. Solar Powered Laptop
During 2007 this simple solar photovoltaic (PV) system has
provided some of my energy needs (OK, a pretty small
percentage I'll admit).
In total there are approximately 40W(peak) of PV panels. This
charges a sealed 'gel' type lead-acid battery with a charge
controller to ensure no overcharging. The battery can then be
moved and used to power various devices including 12V lights,
laptops (through a suitable converter) and audio equipment
(through a pure sine wave DC to AC inverter). There is a display
to show the power being fed into the battery along with the
battery voltage.
Two batteries are used in rotation, with one being recharged
while the other is used.