Summary

This document reports on village selection for the AusAID -CSIRO 'cool village power' project under the Energy Security and Climate Change initiative. (2011, 37pp)

Description

The 'Cool Village Power' project combines CSIRO's sorption refrigeration expertise with TERI's biomass utilisation experience to develop and demonstrate an integrated village electrification and food storage facility.

This report details out the methodology followed to select the village site for this project, which aims to equip a rural village in India with a facility which converts woody biomass into electricity and cool storage for horticultural produce.

Visits were undertaken to these villages to meet the farmers, the local elected representatives and village community at large. On the basis of information gathered from these meetings and after evaluating them against the criteria, Basantpur (Sitapur District in Uttar Pradesh) was selected as the site of the project.

Village selection for Cool Village Power (PDF 2.26mb)