Projects

Developing a recycling plan for old solar PVs

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Energy

The project is to study challenges in the inter-connection of solar PV based microgrid with distribution grids and develop standardized architecture/road map to accelerate the solar PV based microgrid development in India and Develop a recycling plan for solar PV module and new battery technology used in microgrids applications.

Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions for building sector

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Buildings | Sustainable Habitat

TERI is developing Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the buildings sector for Indonesia, Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam.

Enabling Cities to Implement Innovative Sustainable Urban Solutions

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Sustainable Habitat | Climate Change

India is on the cusp of urbanisation with around 34% of the country’s population currently living in cities and a rate of urbanisation higher than most South Asian countries. By 2030, it is expected that 40% of India’s population will be living in urban areas, contributing to more than two-thirds of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Dental Nanocomposite resins based on hybrid dimethacrylates: Mechanical, wear and shrinkage characteristics

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project

These resins will be biocompatible and can be used as dental restoratives. These materials will have good wear characteristics and enhanced mechanical properties. In this study, alkoxy silane will be used along with a mixture of dimethacrylates.

"Demonstration of Aquaphonic and Cage fish culture in Goa"

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project

Tremendous untapped potential exists in Goa to augment fish production from inland/brackishwater aquaculture resources, which are spread across the State that can contribute considerably to improve the livelihoods as also to the empowerment of rural people.

Kumaon Vani Community Radio - 90.4 MHz

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Sustainable Agriculture

The radio station is run by youth from the local community, under TERI's supervision.

Kumaon Vani radio stat

Spatially Resolved Air Pollution Emissions Inventory of India

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Air

Considering India's dynamically changing energy use landscape and recent policy interventions to improve air quality, there is a need to update air pollution emission inventories

Off the grid sensor controlled irrigation using bank filtration technology

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Sustainable Agriculture

The main objectives of this project are to: (1) Provide clean water to farmers using bank filtration technology; (2) Provide renewable electric power to off-the-grid farmers, thereby reducing stress on current electricity infrastructure; (3) Provide increased effectiveness solution for water use by farmers using IoT-based system.

Learning platform for power sector utilities in India

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), with the support of Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (SSEF), has launched a Distribution Utilities Forum (DUF) that brings together various distribution utilities across India to a single platform and envisages taking up issues and challenges in the distribution sector towards enabling distribution reforms.

Mapping Policies and Stakeholders on Climate Adaptation for Crop-Based Systems in the Global South

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Resource Efficiency & Governance

Climate change posed a serious challenge to the agriculture systems not only given its implications for food security and livelihoods but also given the current agrarian distress characterized by declining growth rates in yield, depleting soil fertility, and receding groundwater resources, rising cultivation costs, and inflation.