Workshop on "Energy Solutions for CSCs"

16 May 2007
TERI, IHC, New Delhi

Agenda
List of participants and panel members

The workshop organized by TERI on 16 May 2007 discussed possible energy solutions based on Decentralized Distributed Generation (DDG) for the Common Service Centres under the National e-Governance Programme of the Government of India. The discussion focused on workable solutions based on solar and biomass gasifier technologies to the CSCs which would come up in villages which are poorly or not at all connected with the grid.

The workshop was attended panelists from Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Power, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Tata BP Solar and IL&FS.

The participants list consisted of people from the ICT industry who are keen in setting up ICT kiosks in different divisions who are looking for power solutions for these kiosks and energy service providers like TATA BP Solar, SUNTechnics, OVN BIO Energy, ePower.

 

A major point which came out of the discussion was that the biomass gasifier option can be used more at a community level rather than an individual kiosk level because of its cost economics.

A brief display of the Hybrid Universal Solar Power Pack (HUSPP) and its features was explained to the participants. The HUSPP is a 6 month long research effort, undertaken by TERI and converted to a workable solution, specifically to answer the power problem at the CSCs.

There were many other queries that could not be addressed due to time constraint. IL&FS will collate all the queries from the SCAs (State Coordinating Agencies) and send them to TERI for redressal. The same will be posted on this site in due course.