Council on Energy, Environment and Water

The Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) is one of South Asia's leading nonprofit policy research institutions. CEEW advises federal and state governments on governance issues related to natural resource use and efficiency, security, renewables, energy-trade climate linkages, and sustainability finance. It is regarded as one of India’s premier climate think tanks. Over the last decade, CEEW has emerged as a strong policy voice at the national as well as sub-national level. It has developed partnerships with 16 states with a focus on sustainable development strategies and just energy transition pathways. It has achieved significant success on the global stage, advising the G20 and making meaningful headway nationally, informing the green hydrogen policy, climate risk awareness, and smart meter rollout.

The Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) is one of South Asia’s leading not-for-profit policy research institutions. CEEW advises federal and state governments on governance issues related to natural resource use and efficiency, security, renewables, energy-trade climate linkages, and sustainability finance. This award supports CEEW to work with two large critical sectors—the power sector in two Indian states, and a cohort of large automobile manufacturing companies—to identify their respective challenges in adopting targets necessary for a net-zero future. CEEW conducts custom analyses for these two sectors to institutionalize measures for energy efficiency and to identify pathways and goals for faster integration of renewable energy in their internal processes for raw-material sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution of products and services.

The Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) is one of South Asia’s leading not-for-profit policy research institutions. CEEW advises federal and state governments on governance issues related to natural resource use and efficiency, security, renewables, energy-climate linkages, and sustainability finance. The award supports CEEW to gather data, conduct analyses and develop models and also to develop and test area-specific solutions for addressing barriers to rooftop solar expansion in the urban residential sector. The project uses a collaborative approach to engage both power distribution utilities and consumers to expand the use of rooftop solar. in the targeted market segment

The Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) is a leading South Asian not-for-profit policy research institution and ranks among the top climate think tanks in India. The Council advises federal and state governments on governance issues related to natural resource use and efficiency, security, renewables, energy-trade climate linkages, and sustainability finance. This award enables CEEW to develop a detailed energy and emissions modeling architecture for Indian states. CEEW works with the Joint Global Change Research Institute of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States to build and test development models for states, based on their respective electricity generation, energy consumption, and emission patterns. The models and the subsequent scenario building contribute to informed decision making, both at the state and federal levels.

The Council on Energy,Environment and Water is a leading South Asian not-for-profit policy research institution and is regarded as one of India’s top climate think tanks. The Council works at the global, federal and state levels on issues of governance related to natural resource use and efficiency,security,renewables,energy-trade climate linkages,and in identifying suitable ways to finance clean energy transitions. This award enables the Council to develop India’s first comprehensive database on energy usage and access patterns in rural and urban areas of a select group of states,in partnership with the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy at the John Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies. The initiative experiments with several innovative approaches to data gathering to ensure that future data collection can happen at minimal cost.