26 Aug 2020 | 1500-1645 hrs IST
India has at least a USD 50 billion market opportunity for clean energy innovations to power rural livelihoods. The USD 3 million Powering Livelihoods initiative aims to catalyse this market by providing capital and technical support to social enterprises deploying clean energy-powered livelihood appliances to enable large-scale commercial deployments.
The launch will also introduce the six cohort enterprises under Powering Livelihoods. These enterprises are deploying a wide variety of clean energy-powered livelihood solutions including water pumps, multipurpose food processors, commercial refrigerators and textile machinery (reeling, spinning and weaving).
Riddhima Sethi
Communications Associate
Piyush Goyal
Minister of Commerce & Industry and Minister of Railways
Government of India
Damilola Ogunbiyi
CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for
Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy
Rajiv Kumar
Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog
Government of India
S. Ramadorai
Chairman of the Advisory Board at Tata STRIVE and
Trustee, CEEW
Harish Hande
CEO
SELCO Foundation
Per Heggenes
CEO
IKEA Foundation
Srinivas Ramanujam
CEO
Villgro Innovations Foundation
Abhishek Jain
Research Fellow
CEEW
Arunabha Ghosh
CEO
CEEW
Ananth Aravamudan
Energy Sector Lead
Villgro Innovations Foundation