DIREC Official Side Event
Theme: Addressing barriers for equity
investment and raising risk capital for grid-connected solar
energy
Date: October 29, 2010, New Delhi
Over the next 9 months approx Rs 2700 crores of
equity capital will be getting deployed by Solar PV and Solar
Thermal developers as part of the JNNSM. This number will go up
as Phase I and Phase II of the solar mission progress in the
next few years. A lot of emphasis on financing has focused on
debt. Equity capital which takes the most risk has received less
attention with the assumption that it will come from the project
developers. As project sizes increase, project developers have
no option but to seek external sources of equity capital. Today
equity investment has been limited to a few selected projects.
But if the JNNSM potential of 20GW is to be targeted, a
streamlined equity investment process is a pre-requisite. With
this backdrop India Carbon Outlook, in association with Centre
for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) organized
an Official Side Event in DIREC 2010 on the topic “Addressing
barriers for equity investment: Raising risk capital for
grid-connected solar energy as part of JNSSM”- a discussion
space for equity investors and project developers.
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Roundtable on Technology Transfer, Policy and Climate Change:
Goal 2020
Goal 2020: Identifying issues, options, opportunities and
frameworks towards demand side mainstreaming of climate
friendly technologies through Technology Diffusion Centers
Date: April 20, 2010, New Delhi
In context of technology transfer as a key focus of discussion
between nations post Copenhagen, India Carbon Outlook convened
a roundtable of multilateral investors, trade commissioners,
policy thinktanks and corporates to discuss the global
prototypes and structure of Technology Diffusion Centres
needed in India. The roundtable on ‘Goal 2020: Identifying
issues, options, opportunities and frameworks towards demand
side mainstreaming of climate friendly technologies’ was
organised in association with cKinetics and Observer Research
Foundation.