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CLEAN ENERGY GROUP

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Winrock's Clean Energy Group (CEG), operating through the Renewable Energy Project Support Office (REPSO), works towards the commercialization of "clean" renewable energy technologies by lowering risks and barriers to their adoption through a range of activities including policy research and advocacy support and awareness programs. We also focus on how social equity and environmental justice may be ensured to the poor and marginalized. Winrock believes that a successful transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources can occur earlier in the 21st century in smaller and less industrialized countries like Nepal, which have no fossil fuel resources of its own and is actively involved in improving Nepal's access to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) to improve the feasibility of clean energy projects by quantifying their global carbon benefits.


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• Biofuels for Sustainable Rural Development and Empowerment of Women
  When we began considering local production of biofuels as a possibility for expanding access to energy in developing countries, there was much enthusiasm about the idea of home-grown energy, especially for rural areas where villagers are already engaged in small-scale agriculture. United Nations studies show that available energy systems fail to meet the needs of poor communities, with 2.4 billion people relying on traditional biomass (wood, charcoal, dung and agricultural residues) and 1.6 billion without access to electricity.
  
  
• Winrock Collaborates with Intel in Rural ICT Activity
  Winrock International launches a Rural Livelihood Enhancement project in collaboration with the Intel Corporation to deliver information and communication technology (ICT) services to rural communities in Nepal.
  
  
• Rural Connectivity for Local Development: an Experience
  Build understanding and capacities of commercial ICT centers to provide affordable information and communication services to local communities.
  
  
• Promoting Use of Locally Produced Jatropha Oil as a Sustainable Source of Rural Energy for Irrigation in Nepal
  Nepal is largely an agriculture based country where 80% of the population depends on agriculture for income and employment. Poor irrigation facilities and access is one of the major reasons for low agricultural productivity in the country.
  
  
• Jatropha biodiesel based water pumping for irrigation in poor Terai communities
  Inadequate irrigation facilities have resulted in low agricultural productivity in Nepal. While 80% people rely on agriculture for living, only 44% of total land is irrigated and contribution to GDP is mere 36%. Decentralized and affordable irrigation is a must to improve this situation.
  
  
• Increasing Access of Poor Nepali Communities to Biogas Technology to Strengthen Livelihoods and to Enhance Environment Management
  Most of the Nepalese household energy needs are met from fuel wood from forests. With increasing population, a push for sustainable forest management through communities themselves and increased demands for cleaner and renewable forms of energy for lighting and cooking, biogas has been widely promoted in Nepal.
  
  
• Scaling-up of Indoor Smoke Alleviating Technologies in High Hills of Nepal
  A number of alternatives to solid fuels exist but their high transportation costs, poor reliability of supply and generally poor purchasing power of households makes them unfeasible.
  
  
• ICT Projects in Winrock International, Nepal
  Winrock seeks to develop projects and rural energy services that result in sufficient end use applications to result in affordability of renewable energy technologies and improvement in livelihoods.
  
  
• The Employment Generation Job Fair Organized by the Government of Nepal
  Winrock supports the first ever employment generation fair being held in Kathmandu in early December.
  
  
• Strengthening Rural Communities through Renewable Energy Technologies
  Winrock International recently entered into a partnership with The Ford Foundation to implement a project on "Increasing Access of Poor Nepali Communities to Biogas Technology to Strengthen Livelihoods and to Enhance Environment Management".
  
  
• Biofuels can lessen Nepal's oil woes
  Biofuels, commonly represented by biodiesel and ethanol, are fuels that can be farmed in the very own fields of our country. Why then regret that our country doesn't have fossil fuel mines; It surely has rich biofuel mines.
  
  
• Capacity Building of MFIs for Financing Biogas Plants
  Winrock International Nepal's "Capacity Building of MFIs for Financing Biogas Plants" has been awarded as a best practice project by Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy of Germany (WISIONS).
  
  
• Climate Change in the Grips of Political Economy (in Nepali)
  Nepal formally became a party of the Kyoto Protocol after Foreign Minister Mr. Ramesh Nath Pandey informed the UNFCCC about Nepal's ratification last month. What will this make difference to Nepal? Haka Haki, News Magazine, Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists, Volume 8, Issue 5, November 2005.



• Microcredit Alleviates Poverty
  KATHMANDU, Dec 8 - More than 433,000 households living below the poverty level in Nepal were issued small collateral-free loans to start or to expand micro businesses till last year, according to a latest global report.



• The Clean Development Mechanism in Nepal
  
  
• Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation in Nepal
  
  
• Independent Power Producers' Association, Nepal (IPPAN)
  
  

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