Abhishek Jain

Leading energy access, rural livelihoods, and food systems at @CEEWIndia. MPhil @Cambridge_Uni, BTech @iitroorkee

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@RockefellerFdn @washingtonpost It's quite unfortunate to see such biased reporting. Thank you @RockefellerFdn for highlighting the facts. To add, in my interview, I extensively highlighted well-managed public mini-grids in India, in places like Chhattisgarh. However, the article only talks about the gaps.

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@venkinesis The answer may not necessarily solar cold storage, but biomass cold storage in such a context. Check out @NewLeafDynamic solutions.

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@AmitAgarwal why has @amazonIN lately started delivering coconuts wrapped in so much plastic? For years, they were delivered without packaging. Take some inspiration from @bigbasket_com on reduced and sustainable packaging!

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@madebygoogle A 15-month-old Pixel 5a bricked! And it seems like many users are facing this issue in the last two weeks itself! Expected much better customer support from @Google

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@bahardutt @trvivek @GhoshArunabha Particularly for natural farming, CEEW did an independent evaluation to estimate fertiliser (subsidy) saving due to natural farming adoption in AP. https://t.co/KbQRU2YeIi

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@bahardutt @trvivek @GhoshArunabha Sustainable farming has many avatars. Last year, CEEW analysed 16 different sustainable farming practices, their scale of adoption and their documented impacts. https://t.co/A0csoWopL9

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@nivedita_Him @CEEWIndia Some of these technologies start from INR 20k. More importantly, most of them have payback periods of less than two years.

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#Covid has hit the most vulnerable the hardest. The story is, unfortunately, the same with #climatechange. How can we keep the most vulnerable at the heart of our recovery plans?

@mrcleantech and I share lessons from India.

https://t.co/sguwk3oghV

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@anindya_u @smartpowerorg 4. Focus on mainstreaming a pragmatic framework to transform the #HR performance management in DISCOMs. Incentives drive people. We need the right incentives to transforms DISCOMs, who are run by people! #RoadtoRecovery (4/4)

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@anindya_u @smartpowerorg 3. Beyond households focus on rural microenterprises through reliable grid supply and #offgrid solutions, as needed. Rural areas must become the decentralized hub for #valueaddition. Reliable power is critical to achieving the same. #RoadToRecovery (3/n)

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@archanakhatriD @anindya_u @smartpowerorg 1. Limited awareness (hence, limited interest); 2. Liming financing, as returns are not immediate. #ESCOs are a solution, but recovery risk from #SMEs is a key challenge for ESCOs.

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@lyadhsaab @anindya_u @smartpowerorg Technical losses are about 15-25% in India, not as high as 60%. To bring them down further, better planning of infrastructure is the key. We extend 11 kVA lines for kms where we need 33 kVA and so on.

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@anindya_u @smartpowerorg At #COP26 we must see a Global Partnership on #CleanEnergyAccess for #development between the private sector, national governments, FDIs, and philanthropies to ensure 100% energy access globally by 2025. #RoadtoRecovery (2/2)

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@anindya_u @smartpowerorg Actually, very few themes merge #climatemitigation and #adaptation better than #energyaccess. Moving the vulnerable communities away from fossil and traditional fuels reduces the effective emissions in most cases and improve their resilience in all cases. #RoadToRecovery (1/n)

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@anindya_u @smartpowerorg I am not sure, why. But, I am quite sure that we need to push for this, collectively! #FromIdeasToAction #RoadtoRecovery

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@anindya_u @smartpowerorg Also, focus on appliance #efficiency. Not just consumer appliances, but also #livelihood appliances for #microenterprises. Efficient appliances are the key to make #off-grid solutions economically viable, and hence scalable. #RoadToRecovery (2/2)

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@anindya_u @smartpowerorg Find convergence with the #DISCOMs. Play on your strengths like reliable service and customer orientation and high revenue recovery, which are often the weaknesses for DISCOMs. I see a perfect opportunity for collaboration there. #RoadToRecovery (1/n)

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@Girisham1 @anindya_u @OnPurposeComms @smartpowerorg Indeed #gender and #energyaccess are intricately linked. I hate to say this, but potentially we need a quota for women in the short run across regulatory commissions and DISCOMs' leadership to bring diverse perspective in power sector decisionmaking. #RoadToRecovery