Deadline: 5 January 2020
Applicants are invited to apply for the Powering Livelihoods, a Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)-Villgro initiative, aims to boost India’s rural economy by scaling up the penetration of clean energy-powered appliances for livelihoods. Over three years, the initiative will support at least five enterprises to undertake large-scale commercial deployment of their solutions and use the generated evidence to catalyse the sector.
Powering Livelihoods provides capacity building and up to USD 250,000 worth financial support to enterprises.
Focus Areas
- Agriculture and allied value chains
- Value addition in agriculture and allied produce could significantly improve incomes for more than half of India’s population. As part of Powering Livelihoods, their focus is on enterprises deploying appliances such as clean energy-powered or energy efficient commercial food processors, juicers, dryers, milk chillers, flour mills, milking machines, cold storage, rice hullers, and oil expellers.
- Textiles
- Textile industry is India’s second largest employer. As part of Powering Livelihoods, our focus is on enterprises developing or deploying innovative appliances such as solar charkhas, sewing machines, paddle loom, jute machinery, and silk reelers which could improve productivity, reduce drudgery, and raise incomes.
Eligibility Criteria
- Enterprises developing or deploying innovative DRE-powered/energy efficient appliances for productive use.
- The enterprise’s product caters to agriculture and allied value chains or the textile industry.
- The product is technologically mature and validated with customers, with some level of deployment (ranging in 0’s – 000’s).
- They encourage applications from enterprises promoting inclusion in their business philosophy, particularly at the end-user level. Inclusivity may include a focus on gender, marginalised communities, or other deprived sections of the society.
Ineligibility
- Enterprises looking for grants to develop/validate/pilot their technology.
- Enterprises having reservations regarding equity or debt financing.
- Enterprises having a product without an energy efficiency or DRE-powered component.
- Products not related to textile or agriculture and allied value chains.
For more information, visit http://poweringlivelihoods.org/
