Put renewable energy solutions in manifestos: Pvt firms, NGOs
   Date :19-Mar-2019

 
 
 
NEW DELHI, 
 
The appeal calls upon political parties to recognise decentralised renewable energy as an integral part of India’s energy planning, to promote investment in renewables, to create rural renewable based jobs, to reduce carbon emissions, expanding on clean cooking mission, and to resolve regulatory issues of mini-grids. 
 
A TOTAL of 160 private companies and NGOs on Monday made an appeal to all political parties to include decentralised renewable energy solutions in their manifestos for the 2019 general elections. The appeal was signed by Panasonic India, Barefoot Power, CSIR-NEERI, Observer Research Foundation, Prayas Energy Group and several others. The appeal was sent on behalf of Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN), which is an all-India representative organisation with a mandate to improve rural livelihoods and promote economic growth and jobs through the deployment of decentralised renewable energy. “India is already doing better than many other countries in fighting climate change, but better is not enough. Radical changes need to happen sooner rather than later.”
 
“It is increasingly becoming clear that unless we take urgent action to keep in check rising global temperatures, we are not going to be able to sustain life as we know it,” CLEAN President Svati Bhogle said. CLEAN has called upon political parties to take heed of the global movement in which school students and ordinary citizens are calling on their Governments to take rapid action. CLEAN(Clean Energy Access Network) outlined six specific points.
 
The appeal calls upon political parties to recognise decentralised renewable energy as an integral part of India’s energy planning, to promote investment in renewables, to create rural renewable based jobs, to reduce carbon emissions, expanding on clean cooking mission, and to resolve regulatory issues of mini-grids. The appeal also says that mini-grids not only ensure 100 per cent reliable, quality energy access, but also solve issues of last-mile connectivity.