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India, United States seek proposals for off-grid clean energy projects

| | Aug 19, 2015, at 07:04 pm
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IBNS): In another step forward for the U.S.-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE), U.S. Ambassador to India Richard Verma on Wednesday announced that up to $2 million in grants will be made available for innovative, early-stage off-grid clean energy projects in the first round of the PACEsetter Fund, a joint 50 crore rupee ($7.9 million) fund established in June by the Governments of India and the United States to accelerate the commercialization of off-grid clean energy solutions.

Initial expressions of interest are due October 16; more information is available at PACEsetterFund.org.

Speaking at the inaugural India Off-Grid Energy Summit, Ambassador Verma also announced the launch of a new public-private partnership that will work to mobilize $41 million in finance to enable clean energy entrepreneurs to sustain and scale their business models beyond the early stage targeted by the PACEsetter Fund.  

This effort, a partnership between New Ventures India, Insitor Management, the Global Social Business Incubator at Santa Clara University, and USAID/India, aims to help 1 million Indians gain access to electricity through off-grid clean energy solutions.

Taken together, these two announcements advance President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment to embark on a new and enhanced strategic partnership on energy security, clean energy, and climate change.  They are major milestones for Promoting Energy Access through Clean Energy (PEACE), a PACE initiative focused on harnessing commercial enterprise to bring clean energy access to unserved and underserved individuals and communities.  

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