Community Cooling Hubs
Date : February 20, 2023
Cooling is inter-linked with several aspects of human health and wellbeing. In a warming world, protection of fresh and nutritious food, safe medicines and protection of the population from extreme heat are essential. Cooling is also directly related to work conditions, economic productivity of the working population, and income generation. An estimate suggests that due to extreme heat, the Indian...
Improving Efficiency in the Urban Built Environment
Date : February 20, 2023
The built environment and within that specifically, environmental norms and energy efficiency are subject to a number of policies, laws and regulations handled in different capacities by a range of Ministries and Departments. These policies and programmes very often refer to a set of overlapping and sometimes conflicting norms for efficiency in the built environment. Addressing efficiency and sust...
Mainstreaming Building Efficiency in Academic Curricula
Date : February 20, 2023
Shakti is facilitating efforts to integrate building energy efficiency themes into the academic curriculum of engineering and architecture institutions. This is based on the premise that the next generation of building professionals must be better equipped to work in India’s rapidly growing buildings sector, which is increasingly placing a greater emphasis on a more sustainable urbanization agen...
HCFC Phase-out Management Plan – The SME Foam Sector
Date : April 18, 2022
India recently commenced stage II of the HCFC Phase-out Management Plan (HPMP-II) under the Montreal Protocol. As part of the Plan, India seeks to phase out the consumption of HCFC-141b by 2020. HCFCs are primarily used in the foam sector as a blowing agent. While most large-scale foam manufacturers in India have been able to shift to alternate solutions like cyclopentane, around 422 Small and Med...
Making the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Sector More Energy Efficient
Date : April 14, 2022
As engines of economic growth, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in India’s economy. SMEs contribute to around 45% of the country’s manufacturing output and are growing at a rapid pace. The energy savings potential from the SME sector is pegged at more than 15%. This could potentially translate to 3.5 Million ToE. Shakti is prioritizing several strategic, policy regula...
Energy Efficiency with Internet of Things (IoT)
Date : April 14, 2022
The Internet of Things, popularly known as IoT, is an emerging disruptive technology that transforms the way physical objects and assets operate and add value in any industry vertical. India has become a rapidly growing hub for IoT solutions. It is estimated that the Indian market for IoT is likely to touch USD 15 billion in the next five years. On the policy front, the the Smart Cities Mission an...
Advancing Building Energy Efficiency in India
Date : April 14, 2022
India’s rising population coupled with rapid urbanization will augment the demand for newer buildings in the country. According to estimates, India’s building sector is forecasted to grow fivefold from 2005-30. This will translate into creating a similar sectoral energy demand which currently accounts for almost 33% of total energy consumption in India. To tackle this emerging challenge, India...
Low-GWP Readiness: Training and Certification of Servicing Sector Technicians
Date : April 13, 2022
Better living standards, disposable income and need for cooling have led to increase in the uptake of Residential Air Conditioners (RAC), Commercial Air-Conditioners (CAC), as well as Mobile Air Conditioners (MAC). Due to rise in the demand of cooling equipment, the market for servicing these appliances have also increased rapidly. Currently there are about 200,000 service technicians in the stati...
Implementing ICAP: Developing Optimal Cooling Pathways for India
Date : April 13, 2022
The India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP), launched by the Ozone Cell of the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) in order to address the status and future scope of cooling and refrigeration demand, provides a long-term policy road-map for addressing India’s vast and unmet cooling demand in a sustainable manner with minimal environmental and socio-economic impact. However, wi...
PAT Pulse: A Briefing Paper Series on the Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) Scheme
Date : January 19, 2022
The Perform Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme is a market-based scheme designed to encourage energy efficiency in energy intensive industrial subsectors. The first phase of the PAT scheme concluded in March 2015, and the second phase began in April 2016. This briefing paper series provides a comprehensive analysis of the PAT scheme, drawing from evidence-based market assessments and robust stakeholde...