At this time, 1.6 billion people in the world have no access to electricity and 2.4 billion people rely on wood, charcoal, or dung for primary energy. Access to energy services creates opportunities; it is essential to achieve increased economic growth and decreased poverty reduction. Additionally, access to sustainable energy can both decrease potential greenhouse gas emissions and create conditions that make communities less susceptible to climate change.
TPW Energy Collaborative believes that one of the best methods to expand sustainable and affordable energy services is through policy support. Energy Collaborative grants have focused on initiatives that work to create better policy, write policy, provide sustainable policy and finance models, and showcase pilot projects for replication. Other grants have focused on technology deployment and innovation, but contain opportunities to tie lessons learned into policy creation and potential improvement. Highlights from past and ongoing grants include:
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| Installation of Solar Panels. Photo courtesy of BGET |
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- Designing and setting up a clean stove certification center in Honduras to include stove testing with women's groups and stove labeling for the marketplace.
- Working to improve the governmental evaluation and approval process for renewable energy projects in Honduras and to support industry growth.
- Setting up solar lantern rural entrepreneur schemes in India.
- Working with families in India to utilize cow dung for bio-gas using innovative bio-digestor technology.
- The design and sustainable deployment of solar home systems in low-income rural Thai communities.
- Working to modify the national electrification policy framework of the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Nicaragua to recognize small-scale wind turbines as viable solutions for rural and semi-urban electrification.
- Supporting the government of Guatemala in the preparation, consultation, and approval of biofuels policy.
- Helping to facilitate transparency in electricity governance in Thailand, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines.
- Funding investments that address the lack of energy infrastructure necessary for poverty alleviation in India, through a local social banking model.
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| Efficient lighting allows shopkeepers to work into the night. Photo courtesy of S3IDF |
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Starting in 2008, the TPW Energy Collaborative began focusing its grantmaking efforts on specific countries on a 2 to 3 year timeframe. At this time, we are working in Honduras and India.
To read more about work done with organizations, please click on one of the grant years below.
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| KGVK Solar Lanterns in India |
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Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra (KGVK), Jharkhand India
- Zamorano Institute, Honduras
- AHDESA, Honduras
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| Biogas Stoves in India, courtesy of SVM |
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Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra (KGVK), Jharkhand India
- Samagra Vikas Mission (SVM), Jharkhand India
- Zamorano Institute, Honduras
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| Photo courtesy of Zamorano Institute |
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1. Continued support to Zamorano Institute, Honduras
2. Continued support to AHPPER, Honduras
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| Photo courtesy of AHDESA |
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1. Winrock India work in India
2. Zamorano University work in Honduras
3. AHPPER work in Honduras
4. AHDESA work in Honduras
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| Photo courtesy of BGET |
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1. World Resources Institute--Electricity Governance Initiative work in
India, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines
2. Fundación Solar work in Guatemala
3. Blue Green Energy Team work in Thailand
4. blueEnergy work in Nicaragua
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| Photo courtesy of S3IDF |
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1. World Resources Institute—Electricity Governance Initiative work in
India, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines
2. Fundación Solar work in Guatemala
3. Winrock International Firefly Ecostove work in Nicaragua
4. World Resources Institute—Energy for Economic Vitality work in India
5. The Small-Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund (S3IDF),
Inc work in India
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