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Name of the project: |
Communication and Outreach Support for USAID Programs in India |
Program Area: |
E&E |
Country: |
India |
Project Length: |
December 2004 - October 2008 |
Sponsor: |
Research and Development Solutions, LLC (RDS)/ National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), USA |
Contact: |
sobhan@winrockindia.org |
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Background & Objectives
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 Winrock International India (WII) was contracted to provide support to Research and Development Solutions, LLC (RDS), a contractor of the DOE/NETL and USAID, on various communications and outreach activities in the areas of efficient coal-fired power generation, hydrogen economy, decentralized energy systems, regulatory framework, and general communication and outreach. WII was responsible for implementing the following activities:
- Developing various printed media, including thematic documents (e.g. compendiums, handbooks, fact sheets, brochures, newsletters, educational materials, and reports)
- Planning, organizing, and convening meetings, conferences, seminars, workshops, and symposia on technology- and policy-related issues
- Providing support for various training activities conducted in India
- • Providing facilitation support for DOE/USAID-approved projects implemented in India through RDS
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Completed Activities |
As part of this project, WII has completed the following activities since December 2004: |
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- A roundtable was organized entitled "US-India Hydrogen Energy Dialogue" on April 1, 2005 in New Delhi. A report with recommendations of the roundtable and next steps was prepared and distributed to stakeholders.
- A training workshop was organized entitled "Transportation Greenhouse Gas Project Development, Funding, and Implementation? On June 15-16, 2005 at Mumbai. The proceedings of the workshop were prepared and distributed to stakeholders.
- A technical bulletin on "Hydrogen and Fuel Cells (HFCC) Cooperation" was published on a quarterly-basis and distributed to stakeholders in India and USA. WII has produced and distributed seven issues of the HFCC bulletin.
- WII has helped the Gas Technology Institute (GTI), USA in developing the Indian version of the Building Energy Analyzer (BEA) - an engineering tool - that is used successfully in the US among others by distributed power generation and HVAC consultants, gas and electric utility marketers, and equipment manufacturers and marketers. BEA allows user to accurately evaluate annual or monthly loads and costs associated with air-conditioning, heating, power generation, thermal storage and cogeneration systems for a given building and location. It allows for side-by-side economic comparisons of different energy options, and assesses their environmental impact.
- WII has assisted USDOE in Power India 2006 Conference held in Mumbai on 11-13 October 2006, by managing US DOE stall and organizing meetings of the US organizations/companies with their counterparts in India.
- Further to the development of BEA India version, WII and GTI jointly developed two case studies and thus successfully demonstrated BEA India tool. The two case studies were prepared for Yashoda Hospital (Ghaziabad, UP), and Hotel Maurya Sheraton (New Delhi). A two-day workshop and training program on Distributed Generation was organized on 11-12 October 07 in New Delhi. About 40 participants from building sector, energy consultants, energy auditors, architects, MNRE, and NTPC participated in the conference. The BEA India software was distributed in CDs free of cost to the interested participants.
- WII had extended technical assistance to Energetics, USA in the demonstration of Distributed Generation (DG) Simulator in India. The DG Simulator - an integrated hardware/ software tool that can measure several utility level data points and emulate the technical and economic performance of up to five different Distributed Energy Resources (DER) technologies - was developed by Energetics with financial support from the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), USA and successfully demonstrated in Argentina and Brazil. The objective of this initiative was to demonstrate energy savings that would result from the use of distributed energy devices and identify optimum DG solution for a given commercial building. The DG Simulator was demonstrated at Amar Vilas Oberoi Hotel in Agra and suggested a range of cost-effective energy supply options suitable for the hotel.
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Current activities |
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- WII has put together a Legacy Document highlighting the USAID supported projects in India on clean coal power generation technologies. The document has been reviewed by NETL-USAID.
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