Ongoing Projects
Transforming Pathardi Village into a Model Village
June 13, 2017
| Health & Nutrition
TERI has been extensively working in Pathardi village, Mokhada in Palghar for over 4 years implementing several projects to make the village sustainable in terms of food, energy and water security. Creating better livelihood opportunities for the villagers of Pathardi, especially the women, are important in order to achieve the broader objectives of the project. Sustainable livelihood generation ensures a better shock and stress adaptability, better nutrition for the family members, better access to health services and the resultant low morbidity, thus leading to a better quality of life.
Habitat Model for Efficiency and Comfort
June 13, 2017
| Buildings
| Sustainable Habitat
| Cities
The project aims to provide Indian building market with external shading products that can reduce direct solar heat gain inside a building by more than 75%, while allowing natural daylight; and to design and demonstrate the potential of low energy radiant slab cooling, integrated with natural heat sinks and establish their operational mechanism for optimum comfort and energy efficiency.
ONGC Foundation-TERI-Green School Project
June 9, 2017
| Energy Access
| Energy
TERI in collaboration with ONGC aims to achieve the following specific objectives: 1. To bring improved, clean, and affordable energy to identified secondary schools in Golaghat and Sibsagar through installation of a solar power plant in each school; 2. To improve the knowledge of the school authorities and children in solar energy and create a conducive atmosphere for learning and development of children; 3. To enhance ONGC's visibility in the region through appropriate branding and promotion of their CSR vision.
Consultancy Assignment to study “Economic Rate of Return for various Renewable Energy Technologies”
June 7, 2017
| Energy
| Environment
The project objective is to study the Economic Rate of Return (ERR) for various Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) in India. The study comprises determination of Financial Rate of Return (FRR) for various RETs (solar/wind/biomass/ small hydro etc.) based on primary research and estimation of ERR based on secondary research of socio-economic costs and benefits from each RET, e.g. savings in carbon emissions, local air pollution, avoided health impacts, employment generation etc.
Traffic and air quality in India: Technologies and attitudes (TAQIITA) (Indo-Finland collaborative project)
June 2, 2017
| Air
| Environment
Fine particulate matter is the pollutant of most concern in developing countries today on the basis of exposure, toxicity, and ambient concentrations. Two major contributors in transport to fine particulate air pollution are diesel vehicles and two-stroke engine gasoline vehicles. Due to strong motorization, India has become one of the biggest emitters of atmospheric pollutants. The country's fuel consumption in the transport sector has approximately doubled in every ten years since 1980.
Preparing action plan against air pollution in Ludhiana, Punjab
June 1, 2017
| Environment
The main objectives of the proposed study are to: a. measure air pollutants concentrations (criteria pollutants) at different area categories of Ludhiana city b. prepare grid-wise emission inventory accounting for various pollution sources in Ludhiana city c. project emission inventories for future under different control options d. conduct source apportionment study of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) e. preparation of an air quality action plan after prioritising of control options
Cleaning up our rivers
May 26, 2017
India is blessed with 14 major, 55 minor and numerous small rivers. However, many of these rivers are polluted due to disposal of sewage into these water bodies. There is no sign of river pollution being stopped. It is increasing day by day. There are several sources of water pollution, which deteriorate the river water quality. Industries discharge their liquid waste products into rivers. Our agriculture practice that uses chemical fertilizers and pesticides also contribute to river pollution as rainwater drains these chemicals into the rivers.
BIGASTORE: Biogas driven cold storages for Sub Zero applications in India
May 22, 2017
The objective of the proposed project is to design and engineer cold storage container using bio-waste as energy source. Using bio-waste as energy source reduces high losses in food production and storage that is caused due to missing cold storage and cooling chains in developing and emerging countries. Such countries are also affected by a lack of bio-waste treatment and uncontrolled dumping, which highly compromises on the hygiene of the public. As bio-waste and cooling demand often occur at the same time in the food industry (e.g.
Detailed Study on Promoting Electric Mobility in India
May 11, 2017
| Sustainable Habitat
| Transport
The objectives of the Study are to: Understand the factors that are impeding adoption of four-wheeled passenger vehicles in Indian cities; Suggest policy interventions required to increase their adoption. The focus of the study will be on four-wheeled passenger cars, which include both individually owned and fleet.
Technology Evaluation for Green Housing Scale Up in India (IFC Eco-cities SHLC)
May 11, 2017
| Sustainable Habitat
| Cities
The objective of this study is to ascertain the incremental cost as an outcome of building green (considered as certified third party rating system) in housing projects in India (for various segments) and identify and prioritize technologies with the goal achieving at least 20% reduction in this incremental cost. Through this study TERI proposes to offer its service to: evaluate various building material and technologies to ascertain the incremental cost towards greener construction of housing projects in India;