This study has been undertaken by TERI and IGES supported by AEI, Energy for All Initiative and the ADB and it focuses on what Asia has to offer by way of practice in addressing energy access and expansion of clean energy to the international dialogue on an institutional framework for sustainable development (IFSD). The [...]
ADB’s Energy for All will hold the 2nd Investor Forum on 4 June 2012 as one of the pre-forum events of the 7th Asia Clean Energy Forum, which will be held at the ADB Headquarters in Manila, Philippines. ADB’s Energy for All Program aims to provide energy access to 100 million people in Asia [...]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend $103 million to Reliance Power Ltd. to help finance a solar plant in Rajasthan state that will power homes and businesses in India and help bring the country closer to its ambitious solar power generation goals. The plant will be one of the largest solar plants in [...]
Nepal’s Pioneering ‘Renewable Energy Village’ Switches On Asian Development Bank and its Energy for All Partnership, backed by Government of Nepal and the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre provide renewable energy to remote villages far from Nepal’s national electricity grid. Based on a pilot project providing solar cookers, biogas and solar dryers, remote villagers have now [...]
Nico Peterschmidt, Managing Director of Inensus made a brownbag presentation on “Sustainable mini-grid systems for rural electrification” at ADB Headquarters on 24 February 2012. Inensus developed a Micro Power Economy, a sustainable business and risk management model for ecologically, socioeconomically and financially sustainable off-grid electrification through public-private-partnership. The model has already been successfully implemented in [...]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) are pleased to announce a Call for Presentation Topics for the Asia Clean Energy Forum 2012. The Forum is an annual event that brings together hundreds of policymakers, project developers, investors and technical experts from around the region for Asia’s premier event [...]
ADB’s My View video contest, the annual competition for the best short film on key development issues, has had its deadline extended to 21 March 2012. The topic of this year’s My View is access to energy for development, and Energy for All hopes to see some creative entries that we can highlight during this [...]
DELHI, INDIA – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is co-hosting the Asia regional rollout of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All today, part of the UN’s global initiative for achieving universal access to modern energy by 2030. Today’s event brings together leading organizations, including The Energy and Resources Institute, UN-Energy, UNIDO, and the [...]
Mr. Xianbin Yao, Director General of ADB’s Regional Sustainable Development Department (RSDD) and Mr. Jiwan Acharya, Climate Change Specialist (Energy) participated in the high-level conference, “Energy for All – Financing Access for the Poor”, in Oslo on 10-11 October 2011. The conference was attended by various stakeholders including the UN Secretary General, heads of government, [...]
The SNV and Hivos/Indonesia Domestic Biogas Programme in cooperation with ADB’s Energy for All partnership are organizing an International Workshop on Domestic Biogas on 22-24 November 2011 in Bandung, Indonesia. The international workshop entitled ”Domestic biogas programmes in Asia; transformation towards commercial sectors and development of effective financing facilities” is expected to come up with an outline of [...]
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