India: Sustainable Energy for rural progress

This programme has the objective to electrify and empower 100 non-electrified villages in India on the basis of decentralised power supply systems based on renewable energy resources and technologies. Through the replacement of fuel power plants by small-scale biogassification systems, the saving of CO2-emissions for 1 village is approx. 5’500t/year per MW. The cost of power production from the small-scale biomass gasification systems developed by DESI Power is lower than any other technology in India today. Desipower promotes such projects together with local partners and is already running a project in another village in the same region as the DCA supported project will be implemented.

All in all the programm provides the following sustainable values:

Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
Reduction of local pollution, improvement of local air quality
Employment generation, transfer of know how and local value addition as the programme is linked to village micro-enterprises
Reliable and affordable electricity supply.

For a detailed description of the EmPP Partnership programme download the Project Description as PDF-File (PDF, 163 Kb).

Details about the current status (PDF, 323 Kb) of the project you can download as PDF-File.

For information about the project selection criteria see Project Selection.

Testimonial

Moritz Leuenberger
Federal Councillor, Minister of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication of Switzerland.

Recognize yourself! If we have to compensate our own CO2 emissions, we recognize what kind of climate pests we really are. Let's use this self-recognition as a first step toward improvement. Let's reduce our CO2 emissions. Then we will be able to recognize ourselves without shame – as friends of the climate.