Indian Railways Global Ceiling Fan Competition      ||      Clean Energy Investment Facilitation Platform      ||      South Asia Clean Energy Forum (SACEF) 2024      ||      Inviting applications for the SAREP Grants Annual Program Statement (APS) – FY2024. “[ON HOLD]: In light of the recent Executive Order titled “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” signed by President Trump on January 20, 2025, the South Asia Regional Energy Program (SAREP) Project has been placed in a “Stop Work” status by USAID. As a result, this solicitation is currently on hold until further notice. RTI cannot receive or answer any questions or accept bids at this time. Please check back at a later date for updates.” For more information click Here.
Opportunities: I. Request for Proposal (RFP) – Bhutan Power System Operator (BPSO) e-Monitoring Digitalization Solution. For more information click here. Last date: February 10, 2025.      ||      II. Request for Proposal (RFP) – Provide Technical Services to Support the Saturation of Government Buildings with Rooftop Solar in Haryana. For more information click here. Last date: February 7, 2025.

SAREH Events


SAREH’s services under technical support are a mix of capacity building and advisory support to USAID missions and country stakeholders. SAREH conducts capacity building activities through its two flagship programs that are described below.

  • South Asia Energy Series: This will comprise of webinars, panel discussions and other events which can be conducted in 1-2-hour duration. The topics will be related to technologies, trends, market and policies and speakers will be from IPs, government, private sector, research and advocacy organizations.

  • South Asia Energy Masterclass: The energy masterclass will focus on in-depth sessions. This program will span 4-12 hours and is planned to cover hands-on training related to survey, assessment, simulation, analysis, implementation planning, vendor selection, etc.

SAREH’s flagship capacity building programs will cover the following themes that are part of Asia EDGE.

  • Strategic Energy Sector Planning or Integrated Resource Planning (IRP)
  • Renewable grid integration
  • Electric Vehicles charging infrastructure
  • Power Sector Regulatory and Utility reforms; Power market
  • Smart grid and Smart metering
  • Grid Scale and Distributed Clean Energy Resources
  • Grid scale and distributed energy storage
  • Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Industries
  • Off-grid energy solutions
  • Energy sector linked Air Quality improvements
  • Natural Gas; Hydrogen; Biogas
  • Women participation and leadership in the energy sector
  • Role of private sector in Regional Energy Cooperation
  • Business models and financing for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
  • Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) – planning, guidance and tool

Find more about SAREH events.