Climate Change, Green Products, Clean Technologies, Energy Efficiency to be Equally Weighed in Budget. - India Renewable Energy Consulting – Solar, Biomass, Wind, Cleantech
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June 26, 2009According to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, world-wide US$ 155 billion was invested in clean energy projects in 2008. Of this US$ 4.1 billion was invested in India, representing a 12% increase on the previous year. For this trend to continue and accelerate with the appropriate budgetary statements, the climate group’s advisors says

  • The upcoming budget should set climate change under the key spending areas, as it is doing for other areas like rural development, education and the social sector.
  • There is a need to rationalize energy taxes and direct subsidies to support weaker sections of the economy. This will help in stimulating a consumer shift to green products and services
  • Some of the provisions for accelerated depreciation could be expanded to include clean technologies which are yet to be covered under the Income Tax Act.
  • The Bureau of Energy Efficiency has come up with an energy labelling programme, which could support the up-take of energy efficient and renewable products through differential excise duty.
  • The CDM revenues scheme, as well as energy efficiency trading incomes, should be given tax breaks
  • Innovative financing schemes need to be introduced to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy penetration.
See also: an interesting emerging cleantech segment – Building Energy Analytics


About Narasimhan Santhanam (Narsi)

Narsi, a Director at EAI, Co-founded one of India's first climate tech consulting firm in 2008.

Since then, he has assisted over 250 Indian and International firms, across many climate tech domain Solar, Bio-energy, Green hydrogen, E-Mobility, Green Chemicals.

Narsi works closely with senior and top management corporates and helps then devise strategy and go-to-market plans to benefit from the fast growing Indian Climate tech market.

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