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3 Indian projects vie for the Green Oscars

Three of the eleven projects nominated for Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy ‘Green Oscars’ this year are Indian.

Ishara Bhasi

Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

LONDON: Three of the eleven projects nominated for Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy ‘Green Oscars’ this year are Indian. The innovative projects picked from across Africa, Asia and Latin America will compete for a share of over £200,000 of prize money in the world’s leading green energy awards.

All three Indian finalists — ARTI , IDEI, VK-Nardep — show how, by using sustainable energy at the local level, it is possible to significantly curb carbon emissions and dependence on fossil fuels whilst radically transforming the lives of local communities. They provide real-life examples of how poverty, lack of access to resources and climate change can be tackled simultaneously.

Maharashtra based Appropriate Rural Technology Institute has been nominated for designing a revolutionary biogas system that uses food waste and other sugary, starchy substances rather than dung to produce gas for cooking. It only needs to be 'fed' 1kg per day to produce 500 litres of gas.

The second project, International Development Enterprises India (IDEI) has been selected for promoting a device that allows farmers on the plains of India to grow crops all year round rather than wait for the monsoon. The treadle pump has transformed the lives of some of India’s rural poor at a cost (including the well) of less than £20.

The third project is the Tamil Nadu based Vivekananda Kendra — NARDEP for making a series of advances in biogas design and boosting organic farming. This technology, which turns livestock waste into gas for cooking and uses the residue as fertiliser, is well proven.

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