Future Plans

The experience of the first phase is being used to define and formulate the next phase of DesiPower's rural "EmPower Partnership©" Programme. A project to fine tune the business plan is being initiated in three cluster centres under a grant from Shell Foundation, London. The progress of new investments and training will be continuously monitored and evaluated in the three villages for defining the conditions for a large scale replication of the programme. Discussions on the financing of new projects in other villages in these clusters and in new locations are also underway.

DesiPower expects that very soon there will a large enough number of villages with successful EmPower Partnership© Programmes to make these rather unique projects attractive for private and institutional investors. A part of the investments can also be raised through the integration of these projects in the CDM and Joint Implementation mechanisms of the Climate Change Convention. A beginning has been made through the selling of voluntary CO2 emission certificates.