CLEAN organized an Awareness Creation and Demonstration Workshop for Decentralized Renewable Energy (DRE) Appliances.

Odisha Taza News (9 April , Friday ) Bhubaneswar :- With the aim of creating awareness among various stakeholders, especially the end-users, about the scope, relevance and subsequent impact of Decentralized Renewable Energy powered technologies, CLEAN organized an Awareness Creation and Demonstration Workshop for Decentralized Renewable Energy (DRE) Appliances. CLEAN envisions that focused awareness generation initiatives will help the underserved communities get access to clean and reliable energy. It is also expected to have an overarching positive impact on other critical facets of their lives, such as their health, education, live lihood generation etc.

This will ensure a strong intersection of SDG 7 ( Affordable and Clean Energy ) with SDG3(Good Health and Well Being),SDG4 (Quality Education),SDG(Gender Equality),SDG8(Decent work and Economic Growth) and SDG13(ClimateAction)tonameafew. This workshop is part of CLEAN’s ongoing pan-India initiative to sensitize stake holders, especiallypotential end users about various innovative energy-based solutions such as such as Solar Riceprocessing machines, Millet processing machines, Solar freezers, etc., which can impact livelihoodsand bring about a change in their lives. Speaking about the initiative,

Vijay Bhaskar, CLEAN Board Member said, “The energy narrative in India has moved beyond access and is now focusing on supporting rural economic development through a sustainable low carbon model. CLEAN’s initiatives such as this one serves to build greater awareness on the technologies, access to finance and market opportunities for rural businesses” The workshop sensitized keyplayers suchas Farmer Producer Organizations (FPO’s),Self Help Groups (SHG’s),live stock farms,agro and food processing units about innovative DRE technologies, suited to their various needs. It is anticipated that learning from the workshop would enable local enterprises, working on DRE