The initiative aims to develop approaches for providing access to reliable and affordable energy services and scaling them up.
That includes household access to electricity from renewable energy technologies such as micro-hydro, solar, biomass, and small wind power and access to clean cooking fuel such as liquefied petroleum gas and biogas from livestock manure.
[3] Convener: SNV Netherlands Development Organisation Target: Deploy 1 million domestic biogas plants for 5 million people and develop sustainable commercial biogas sectors in 15 countries in Asia and the Pacific by 2016.
Convener: The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) Target: Expand access to off-grid lighting solutions for 50 million people by 2015.
Convener: Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS) Target: Develop clean energy enterprises in the region through public-private partnership models and a network of industry associations, institutions and relevant government bodies.