Here’s how your CSR Funding can help reduce regional air pollution, increase energy access in rural areas, increase the share of renewable energy sources in India's power mix, increase India’s energy independence and reduce the emission of climate change enhancing gases!
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Project by: cBalance Solutions Hub
Funding Required: INR 5,00,000
Here’s what the folks at cBalance Solutions Hub have to say about this Project:
The Fairconditioning programme builds energy-efficiency capacity amongst architects, mechanical engineers and influential corporates, enabling them to reduce air pollution, increase energy access in rural areas, improve India’s energy security and combat climate change.
Who?
Fairconditioning is a non-profit programme born from a collaboration between cBalance Solutions Hub, Pune and Noé21, Geneva.
cBalance Solutions Hub (cBalance), cbalance.in, is a social enterprise based in Mumbai and Pune that aims to facilitate a balance between carbon, ecological cost, and local communities to enable a balance in the global climate.
cBalance was founded by Vivek Gilani, an environmental engineer and Ashoka fellow, along with co-founders Bhagyesh Deo, Gyan Prakash, and Saumya Agarwal. The cBalance team (in alphabetical order) is Dhrumit Parikh, Dhruv Gupta,Dominic Mathew, Milkesh Potdar, Mahima Rathore, Nitin Pasricha, Shreya Mundhra,Renuka Khanzode, Ruchie Kothari, and Vishwajeet Poojary.
cBalance is:
- A Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) Certified Energy Auditor
- The developer of the first India-specific GHG Emission Factor Database
- The India-associate of Best Foot Forward/Anthesis (UK)
- An empanelled GHG Inventory Consultant with The Green Signal - India's first sustainability ecolabelling programme
Noé21, is a Geneva-based, not-for-profit association of public utility founded in 2003. It is an independent center of competence and action whose mission is to identify, evaluate and promote solutions to climate change, and has been active in fostering the deep retrofitting of the building stock in Geneva to reduce the outstanding contribution to global warming from heating buildings.
Noé21 is a:
- Alliance for Climate (Zurich) member
- European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (Stockholm) member
- European Environment Bureau (Brussels) member
- Climate Action Network Europe (Brussels) member
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Bonn) accredited NGO
- Reduce regional air pollution
- Increase energy access in rural areas
- Increase the share of renewable energy sources in India's power mix
- Increase India’s energy independence
- Reduce the emission of climate change enhancing gases
Increase Energy Access in Rural Areas
Disparity in energy access is a direct contributor to disparity in sustainable human development opportunities. Fairconditioning focuses on interventions to redistribute the energy use ‘pie’ - energy waste is rampant in urban centres and load shedding is imparted predominantly on rural areas. India faces an energy shortage of 8.7% as per-capita energy consumption in India increased from 1,471 kWh/year in 1980-81 to 4,816 kWh/year in 2010-2014. A portion of this increase brings no added comfort or service but is lost in the form of pure waste by poorly designed buildings.
Increase the share of renewable energy sources in India's power mix
Increasing the share of power provided by local, renewable and clean energy sources is a national priority. Reaching this goal will be a slow, long term haul as long as power output is wasted on inefficient appliances and buildings and through unadapted consumption patterns. As energy efficiency gains build up, the development of renewable energy generating capacities will be in a much better position to take the lead in providing the added necessary power capacity.
- India is yet to build 70% of the buildings that will exist in 2030
- If business-as-usual (BAU) is not challenged, the amount of Rooms ACs in India will balloon from 32 million ACs in 2015 to 225 million ACs in 2035 and Commercial ACs from 9 Million-TR in 2015 to 104 Million-TR in 2035.
- If BAU is not challenged, ACs installed in Indian commercial and residential buildings are expected to emit 338 MT CO2e by the year 2030 (approximately 12% of GHG emissions in 2010).
- If BAU is not challenged, 1,010 new coal power plants will need to be built by 2030 just to meet energy demand from air conditioning in India.
- Build-up India's energy-efficiency capacity in cooling building interiors.
- Make sure the upcoming waves of graduating architects and engineers are ready to design and equip India with truly energy efficient buildings.
- Train practising architects & HVAC engineers, to make them fluent with energy-efficient technologies.
- Influence corporate managers to harvest energy efficiency gains in their premises.
- Architecture Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop, 12 - 14 March 2016, Bengaluru
- Engineering Student Certification Workshop, 08 - 12 February 2016, Delhi/NCR
- Architecture Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop, 11 - 13 December 2015, Delhi/NCR
- Architecture Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop, 03 - 05 October 2015, Mumbai
- Engineering Student Certificate Workshop, 20 - 24 July 2015, Pune
- Engineering Student Certificate Workshop, 06 - 10 July 2015, Chennai
- Roundtable Conference for Architecture Professors, 15 May 2015, Mumbai
- Engineering Student Certificate Workshop, 27 - 31 January 2015, Pune
- Architecture Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop, 09 - 11 January 2015, Mumbai
- Thoughtful Cooling Round-table Discussion, 28 May 2016, Pune
- Thoughtful Cooling Workshop, 25 - 27 March 2016, Bangalore
- Thoughtful Cooling Workshop, 04 - 06 March 2016, Delhi/NCR
- Thoughtful Cooling Workshop, 19 - 21 February 2016, Pune
- Thoughtful Cooling Workshop, 12 - 14 February 2016, Mumbai
- Thoughtful Cooling Workshop, 27 - 29 November 2015, Bangalore
- Thoughtful Cooling Workshop, 21 - 23 August, 2015, Mumbai
- Thoughtful Cooling Workshop, 12 - 14 June 2015, Pune
- Roundtable Conference for Architecture Professors, 15 May 2015, Mumbai