India Off-grid Energy Impact Competition

Closing dates for the first round of applications - 18th December 2016.

The India Off-grid Energy Impact Competition is an open competition, organised in partnership with Smart Villages, for existing energy entrepreneurs and practitioners across India. Launched to find the best examples of initiatives where energy access is enabling the biggest impact on social and economic development for rural communities, through this competition, the Smart Villages Initiative seeks to champion successful approaches to providing village level energy in order to help existing entrepreneurs scale and to inspire more entrepreneurs to start off-grid energy businesses in India.

The winning case study will receive

• INR 10 lakh in prize capital
• Business support from the Entrepreneurial Development Institute of India
• A spot on the main stage at the World Sustainable Development Forum in 2016.

The Smart Villages Initiative believes that energy access holds the key to enabling economic and social development in rural villages. Help us demonstrate how this is already happening by telling us about how your off-grid energy business is impacting the lives of the people you serve.

For more info on the competition and to enter, visit http://e4sv.org/competition/india