Ongoing Projects

India Energy Efficiency Scale Up Program - TCAF – Program Information Note

April 24, 2017

| Climate Change

For this assignment, the scope of work is to create a Program Information Note (PIN) for Energy Efficiency Services Limited¿s (EESL) various initiatives under the Transformative Carbon Asset Facility (TCAF). This project will design carbon monitoring methodologies, primarily for EESL¿s various initiatives - including providing efficient ceiling fans and air-conditioners, efficient household lighting and street lighting - with an aim of enabling market-based carbon pricing and sectoral mitigation measures.

Consultancy for Technical Services under PAT scheme to Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Limited, Hisar

April 15, 2017

| Energy

| Energy Efficiency

The main objectives of this project are to: (1) identify maximum energy savings in the plant; (ii) meet the requirements of PAT reporting; and (iii) build the capacities of the plant personnel on PAT compliance requirement. These objectives will be achieved by conducting energy audit and timely reporting to the state designated agency (SDA) and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE).

Decision support systems for local energy policy in India - Surat

April 4, 2017

| Energy

The main goal of this project is to deliver a Proof of Concept of a decision support system to help the city council of Surat, India, to decide how to manage, extend or adapt its energy options.

Ensuring electricity supply and enhancing quality education at Keshav Dham School and Hostel in Vrindavan, Mathura

April 3, 2017

| Energy

| Energy Access

With support from RVNL, under its CSR programme, TERI is undertaking this project to solarize the Keshav Dham school and hostel at Vrindavan in order to bring improved, clean, and affordable energy provision. The specific objectives are to:

Organizing 5 day refresher course for IFS officers on the topic "Environment Economics and Accounting, Green GDP and Carbon Financing" during 4 - 8 September 2017

April 1, 2017

| Environment

| Climate Change

This 5 day course from 4th to 8th September will deliberate on deriving linkages between Green GDP and Environmental economics and accounting, keeping forestry sector at the center stage and will deliberate on the role of forests in providing various ecosystem services (ecological, economic, socio-cultural etc)

Providing support for implementing smart community pilot project in Panipat, Haryana, India during 2017-18

April 1, 2017

| Environment

| Land

NEDO is implementing a smart community pilot project in selected sub-stations of Panipat. TERI provided support to the members of consortium and NEDO for undertaking the pre-feasibility study and feasibility study. In continuation to this, TERI proposes to assist NEDO for implementing smart community pilot project in Panipat. The scope of work would include the following: Understanding the regulatory environment for smart community project: Customization of smart community equipment as per the local environment;

Enhanced climate transparency in the G20 countries

March 29, 2017

TERI is a partner with the Climate Transparency Initiative since 2017 - which is an open global consortium with a shared mission to stimulate a 'race to the top' in climate action through enhanced transparency in climate actions. The group envisions establishing a credible reference point for policy makers and influencers - a valuable resource for media for the benefit of enhanced climate ambition and action, and thereby seeks to support the shift of investments towards zero carbon technologies.

Metatranscriptomics driven isolation of Tea root associated bacteria and their evaluation for drought tolerance properties.

March 21, 2017

| Microbes

| Sustainable Agriculture

Plant root microbiome plays the key role in plant health maintenance during conducive as well as a stressed situation and their population dynamics (culturable and non-culturable) varies with the surrounding environment. Therefore, culturable microbial strains associated with drought tolerant plants are explored and mobilized as input to sustain other plant growth during drought situation. However, the non-culturable microbes that represent substantial proportions of total microbiome are not explored yet for their beneficial role during stress condition.

C-ICE: Counteracting effect of future Antarctic sea-ice loss on projected increases of summer Monsoon rainfall

March 20, 2017

| Climate Change

Introduction

South-Asian society and economy are heavily dependent on seasonal rainfall during the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM). This rainfall has large spatio-temporal variability, the main pattern of which is expressed in an alternation of "break" and "active" phases. Break phases imply dry conditions over India’s main agricultural areas.