WII is implementing a project titled ‘Promotion of bio-fuels for energizing remote villages in India’, with the objective of demonstrating the technical and financial viability of running diesel generation sets using vegetable oil as fuel in place of conventional diesel to provide electricity in remote villages, through its project office at Kawardha in Chhattisgarh. This project supported by British High Commission assumes great significance against a background of addressing energy security, poverty reduction, environmental concerns, livelihood issues and the overall quality of life.
The project builds upon an existing initiative of WII and MNRE in Chhattisgarh by designing and implementing a replicable model of remote village electrification through the bio-fuel route and is expected to act as a model for MNRE to follow and adopt in setting up similar plants towards meeting their mandate of electrifying more than 25,000 remote villages through renewable energy in future. A bottom-up, participatory approach with a strong emphasis on ownership has been adopted and in order to ensure ownership of the initiative by the local community and ensure sustenance of efforts beyond the period of project duration, various stakeholders are being engaged for designing the intervention.
Keeping in mind the irrigation energy needs of the target population, WII undertook an assessment of the water resources in the area, based on which a water development and management plan was developed. Currently, with support from Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, WII is implementing the recommendations of this study.
Both the above projects are being facilitated by Jay Chand Shiv (Project Officer) and Devendra Kumar Sahu (Project Assistant) in the Kawardha office. Details are available at Promotion of Bio-fuels for Energizing Remote Villages in India in Active Projects - Energy & Environment.
For more information on the project, please contact:
Jay Chand Shiv
Project Officer
Winrock International India
Opp. Rajmahal, Rajmahal Building
Kawardha - 491995
Chhattisgarh
Tel: +91-7741-233511
Email:wii-kawardha@winrockindia.org
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