Nonconventional Energy and Rural Development Society

The organization is named as Nonconventional Energy and Rural Development Society in order to promote the nonconventional energy sources like biogas plants to recover methane from animal dung night soil individual waste market waste agricultural biomass and municipal solid waste and also solar gadgets. It is 27 years old and during the last 27 years it has installed about 10 500 biogas plants. It had mainly installed individual domestic type biogas plants for the farmers. The domestic plants mainly cater the needs of cooking and lighting demand of the family. The size of the plant ranges from 1 cum to 6 cum. The organization has organized more than 450 village level awareness camps to identify and motivate the potential beneficiaries and farmers for the installation of biogas plants. The organization had contacted the banks for getting the loan for the installation of the plants and also the Government for getting the subsidy. The organization has been recognized as Business Development Associate of Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency of Government of India for undertaking the projects on renewable energy sources particularly for biogas plants. , , It had installed biogas plants in the remote tribal area viz Thalingi settlement of Amaravathi Forest Range in Coimbatore district of Tamilnadu state to electrify the entire village. The tribal settlement has no possibility of electrification through the conventional means of electricity because it is located in the interior forest without road connectivity and transport facilities. The remote villages are to be electrified through decentralized generation using nonconventional energy sources. The technology to be used will depend on the size of the village and the resources available locally. A prime example of demonstration of electrification through biogas technology by the proposing organization is the Thalingi Tribal Village as first of its kind in India. , , , The organization had installed more than 50 VermiComposting units to produce value added organic manure by making use of biodigested slurry coming out of the biogas plants. Through the promotion of VermiComposting units integrated with biogas plants the farmers were able to meet their entire fertilizer need for the organic farming. The organization has implemented a novel waste to energy and manure project. , , The organization is promoting Women Self Help Groups and Men Youth Groups for their empowerment and bank loan with government subsidy for the purchase of Milch animals and thereby they will be in a position to install biogas plants to meet their energy demand and the thereby selfsufficiency in fuel and fertilizer requirement. So far it had formed about 4000 Self Help Groups benefiting about 60,000 below poverty line families. On summarizing the organization experience we can conclude that the organization is having 27 years of rich experience in renewable Energy projects mainly benefiting women and farmers.