Germany to buy carbon credits in Indian ’solar kitchen’ deal
I saw this headline in the The Hindu Business Line: Germany to buy carbon credits from TTD solar kitchen
In its efforts to reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions, the German Government is in the process of buying carbon credits from the solar kitchen of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD). It has identified the TTD kitchen as one of the projects from which it would buy certified carbon reductions (CERs).
“The agreement would be signed within two months,” said Ms Pamposh Bhat, Head, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) - India, GTZ (German Technical Corporation).
GTZ has been commissioned by the German Government to identify CDM project in large solar-powered community kitchens in India to offset the carbon dioxide emissions of Renewable Energy Conference 2004 held in Bonn.
Eleven such projects that include community kitchen concepts backed by solar cooking at places such as temples, ashrams, hospitals, technical institutes and colleges are being considered from which CERs could be bought. “We are also identifying community solar cooking projects that serve between 500 to 15,000 people per day,” she said.
