The Business Model and types of Plants

DesiPower has been working on a program for providing electricity and energy services in villages jointly with local partners who establish local small scale industries, businesses and agro-forestry for value addition and job creation. In order to ensure that both the enterprises become self-reliant and profitable within a reasonable time, the "Business Plans" of the Independent Rural Power Producer (IRPP) and the village organisation (which may be the village Panchayat, a company, a co-operative, or a NGO) are evolved jointly and simultaneously. For commercial success, the power plant has to sell as much electricity as it can generate and the villagers have to produce and sell their products profitably.

The IRPP ensures the reliable and affordable supply of electricity and energy services based on locally available renewable energy resources such as agricultural residues and other biomass. The local partner organisation, on its part, ensures the supply of the biomass and the purchase of adequate amounts of electricity at agreed prices. A women's group is encouraged and supported to take charge of the energy service activities such as cooking and lighting for households.

A mutually beneficial partnership is thus created under which reliable power supply and energy services ensure local job creation and income generation, while the assured off-take of power and energy services ensures a profitable operation of the IRPPs.

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DesiPower's Business Models

Decentralised Energy Systems India Private Ltd. (DesiPower) Decentralised Energy Systems India Private Ltd., DesiPower, has been formed to supply electricity and energy services to two distinct decentralised electricity markets:

� Captive power plants for small scale industries which depend upon diesel generators (due to unreliable grid supply).

� Independent Rural Power Producers (IRPPs) for villages and semi-urban areas.

While the technology and the management of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) activities will be practically the same for the two business sectors, the business model for each of them has to be tailor made to the specific conditions of the load and financing in each market segment.