DRIVE

What DRIVE is

DRIVE is an initiative working on decentralised renewable energy adoption within Indian enterprises. It brings together awareness building, technology matching, enterprise development and financing linkages so that a small business can move from an energy problem to a working solution.

Purpose

To make decentralised renewable energy a practical, financeable choice for micro, small and medium enterprises — starting from the business problem rather than the technology catalogue. UrjaSetu is the platform through which this happens; DRIVE supports it.

Partners

• GAME

  Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship — works on mass entrepreneurship in India, including access to finance, market linkages and enabling policy. Role within DRIVE: to be updated with project-provided information.

• LGV

  Partner in the DRIVE initiative. Role and contribution: to be updated with project-provided information.

• Sales Force

  Partner in the DRIVE initiative. Role and contribution: to be updated with project-provided information.

The DRIVE approach

1. 01 Understand the business problem before proposing any technology.
2. 02 Match an appropriate decentralised renewable energy solution to that problem.
3. 03 Work out how the project will be financed.
4. 04 Pilot with a credible provider, then scale what works.

Impact

No. of Solutions

To be updated

Enterprises Benefited

To be updated

Regions Covered

To be updated

Impact figures are published only once verified by the project authorities. Additional verified metrics will be added here as they become available.