Access to Energy in Rural Areas – IGEN – ACCESS
Objective
- To improve sector environment for rural energy enterprises
Description
Project intends to improve access to energy by supporting the development of businesses and innovation, ensuring access to financing for households, farmers and businesses, and designing and implementing public support programmes, guidelines, standards, etc.
Field of intervention
- Energy in agriculture
- Clean cooking energy
- Biogas
- Rural Electrification
- Productive Use of Energy
Targeted beneficiaries
- Businesses, households, farmers
Achievements
- Development of public support programmes, guideline, standards, etc. such as biogas standards, state energy action plan
- Development of financing instruments, such as lease, loan, crowdfunding platform, etc.
- Development of businesses and value chains such as bankable business plans for companies
- Development and piloting of business models, such as mobile water pumps
Publications/Knowledge Products
- Spinning with the sun Factsheet
- Solar Water Pumping for Irrigation Potentials and Barriers
- Solar Powered Irrigation Pumps
- Improving the Market Ecosystems for Solar Irrigation Pumps
- Igniting the Indian Market for Improved Cookstoves
- Energy Access Through Offgrid Hydro Project
- The Kaleidoscope of Cooking Understanding Cooking Behaviour and Stove Preferences in Rural India
COUNTRY
India
DURATION
01 April 2015 - 31 March 2019