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15 Apr 2020

Crowdfunding for Energy Access in India

This report is the product of a two-month placement at the Indo-German Energy Programme – Access to Energy in Rural Areas (IGEN-ACCESS) in New Delhi, India, which the author completed ...

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22 Apr 2020

Seeds of Change

The Coffee Table Book is being presented to give a pictorial impression of different aspects of energy poverty, which is often set against the picturesque landscape of rural India. The ...

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22 Apr 2020

Policy brief: Access to Clean Cooking Energy in India

Access to clean cooking energy is not solely an energy access issue.  Given that traditional cooking methods disproportionately impact women in terms of drudgery, adverse health outcomes, and lost opportunity ...

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15 Apr 2020

Ingredients for Sustainable Cookstove Interventions

The National Programme on Improved Cookstoves (NPIC) was implemented by the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) between 1983 and 2002 to bring improved biomass cookstoves to the ...

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15 Apr 2020

The Kaleidoscope of Cooking

This study was undertaken to understand consumer preferences for different Improved Cookstove (ICS) products and identify suitable ICS technologies/models for users in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The study ...

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15 Apr 2020

Energy Access Through off- Grid Micro Hydro Projects

Access to infrastructure is one of the basic requirements for development of an economy, and it holds its importance especially in the context of off-grid rural areas that generally lag ...

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15 Apr 2020

Improved Cookstoves

About 145 million Indian households use traditional cookstoves for their daily cooking and depend on biomass fuels such as wood, dung, or agricultural residues. Traditional cookstoves, such as three-stone- fires ...

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15 Apr 2020

Access to Finance for MSMEs in the RE sector in India

This report aims to fill the gap in the literature by providing information on the financing needs, barriers, gaps and solutions for specific segments with the RE sector. The objective ...

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15 Apr 2020

Framework to Shortlist Potential Districts for

The aim of this research is to develop a comprehensive framework based on secondary data and to undertake a comparative analysis for various districts in Uttar Pradesh for setting up ...

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