South Asia Clean Energy Forum (SACEF) 2024.   Register here      ||      Inviting applications for the SAREP Grants Annual Program Statement (APS) – FY2024. For more information click Here.
Opportunities: I. Request for Proposal (RFP) – Training and Capacity Building in the areas of ESG and sustainability. For more information click here. Last date: September 16, 2024.      ||      II. Request for Quote (RFQ) – Optimum utilisation of Indian Railways (IR) Rooftop Solar (RTS) assets by integrating this with Auxiliary transformer of traction supply. For more information click here. Last date: September 17, 2024.     ||      III. Request for Expression of Interest (RFEI) – Oversee state-level technical interventions and manage implementation of activities. For more information click here. Last date: September 26, 2024.

Grantees selected from SPF Round 2

SAREP invited the second call for applications. The latest round of Request for Applications (RFAs) under the USAID SAREP Partnership Fund (SPF) was open till December 15, 2022. This is the second of the six rounds of RFAs planned during the five-year duration of the SAREP project.

The USAID SPF will support market-based transformative solutions to enable the clean energy transition in South Asia, particularly by engaging the private sector, local organizations, and new and underutilized partners. It will also harness innovative business models, solutions, technologies, resources, experiences, and networks of relationships that exist across stakeholders. Through this RFA, USAID SPF invites applications to fund qualified organizations for supporting activities and programs consistent with USAID SAREP’s objective of improving access to affordable, secure, reliable, and sustainable energy, and its four objectives.

This RFA focuses on activities specific to all six SAREP countries – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Through this RFA, USAID SPF is inviting applications to fund qualified organizations for supporting activities and programs consistent with SAREP’s purpose of improving access to affordable, secure, reliable, and sustainable energy, and its four objectives.

To provide detailed information about the RFA, including eligibility, projects considered, process to apply, etc., USAID SAREP held an online information dissemination event on October 31, 2022. More than 100 participants from 13 countries and over 90 organizations attended the event, which was also livestreamed on YouTube and is available here:

Grantees selected through SAREP Partnership Fund Round 2

Recipient

Objective
Alta Vision Pvt. Ltd. AI – Powered Demand Management System (ADMS) for Sri Lanka
Calcef Innovations dba New Energy Nexus ElectronVibe – competition to identify innovations by start-ups for utilities in Maldives
Greenstat Hydrogen P. Ltd. Support Sri Lanka’s comprehensive National level Green Hydrogen Program
ICLEI Local Govts. For Sustainability, South Asia Renewables for Sustainable Energy Transition (RESET) in South Asia
Power Ledger Pty. Ltd. Developing a local energy market using blockchain-enabled P2P energy trading
Sangam Ventures Decarbonizing of Industrial Heat in South Asia
Smart Energy Syst. Inc. dba Smart Energy Water Customer Engagement Platform to optimize energy use and superior customer engagement