In November 2020, AEEE co-presented a model National Cooling Action Plan (NCAP) development framework at the 32nd Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MOP32), along with UNEP, UNESCAP
Read more
Blog
Unlocking BRPL Fan Replacement Scheme 2020
India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. However, the cooling demand of the country is also rising exponentially with around four trillion ‘person cooling degree days.
Read more
Can private equity investments and M&V interventions emerge as a promising solution for ESCOs
This blog highlights the financial issues faced by ESCOs and possible solutions for financing EE projects to scale and replicate the ESCO business models.
Read more
A Numerical Retracing of the Climate Challenge and its Solutions
This blog assembles data from publicly-available research, keeping India in focus, to describe and comment on some key aspects of climate change.
Read more
Bringing economic and energy efficiency priorities together in a post-pandemic world
The COVID-19 crises have put to the forefront grave challenges that are not just limited to the healthcare sector. Along with a staggering public-health turmoil, the economic repercussions of the pandemic have been alarming in the country with the contraction of GDP in Q1 of 2020 by 23.9% and the loss of jobs in April with the announcement of lockdown has been estimated to be at an alarming high of 122 million.
Read more
Cooling as a developmental need in human habitat
Over the past decade, rising temperatures have added to the enormity of India’s developmental challenges. Rising temperatures present a grave danger to both food (nutrition) security and public health, making access to cooling a necessity for all sections of the population.
Read more
The time is right for global alliances to harmonize Vaccine Supply Chains
While putting 1.3 billion people in lockdown in India due to the threats of the spread of COVID-19 might be the biggest social experiment in the history of humanity, its socio-economic impacts will not be equally spread. To begin with, the mitigation calls for coordinated negotiations between the up-sizing and down-sizing of the government machinery, calling for ‘g-local’ (global decisions impacting local actions) and affordable solutions which remain accessible to the most vulnerable sections of the society and most importantly, the will and capacity of the state to undertake fundamental changes.
Read more
Energy Access: Essential Enabler for Public Health
There is a critical link between energy access and public health. Both of them are UN Sustainable Development Goals but their interdependence has often been overlooked.
India’s GDP has experienced a significant growth in the past decade and ranked as the fifth largest economy in the world in 2019, surpassing the United Kingdom and France. It is also one of the fastest growing economies amongst the G20 countries. However, its Human Development Index (HDI) rank is 130 out of 189 countries, with an HDI value of 0.64 in 2017. There is a strong relationship between per capita energy consumption and HDI specifically at low levels of energy consumption.
Read more
Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Teaching us new ways to network?
There are events in history when disruptive changes become a new shared reality, forcing us to take a leap of faith into unchartered territory. The COVID-19 pandemic and its local, national and global health and safety regulations has changed the face of our people to people connections. As we vacate those hallways, we construct new networks, overcoming the physical with the virtual. In times like this adoption of innovation, technology and networked communications could be prescribed to keep the show going. But is India ready to adapt to this niche behaviour in the short term or do we still have miles to go and some hardships to overcome, even in a post COVID lockdown world?
Read more
9 minutes at 9 PM: The test of grid flexibility
It doesn’t take much power to light a single bulb. But when you have billions of lights, the story is not the same. When all the households shut down their lights for 9 minutes at 9 PM, it was expected to cause a power swing of 12-15 GW on India’s grid. The total power reduction on the night of 5th April 2020 was 32 GW, twice of what was anticipated.
Read more
