Chairman
MD
While the nation has been ardently needing a sustainable, renewable, green and clean energy solution for the cooking portfolio,inter alia, two visionary social entrepreneurs Ram Agrawal and Bipin Khetan, have always nursed a dream to bring an end to the risk of life borne by under-privileged women in Nepal who have been cooking on the huge carbon-emitting-source, i.e., firewood, resulting in more than 8000 lives lost each year, besides hundreds of thousands being subjected to illnesses as fatal as lung cancer, COPD, ALRI, IHD etc, many of whom sadly end up losing lives. They have been concerned as much about the huge menace of deforestation happening for the sake of firewood – resulting in natural disasters taking thousands of lives. Their envision to bring in sustainable, renewable, green and clean energy at affordable costs across the spectrum, and to work towards drastically reducing the fossil fuel footprint, assumes critical significance. Their concern towards upkeep of environmental sanctity transcends economic considerations. Towards this mission, they have tied up as the country distributors with a leading technology company in household biogas globally, HomeBiogas who have been working in partnership with the likes of United Nations, European Union, USAID, SNV, inter alia and are launching the state-of-the-art units across Nepal, now to render it available much competitively in terms of functional efficiency and costs, both, as compared to what was incurred on the prevalent RCC model. The duo has interests across various arenas including real estate development, FMCG, automotive tyres, dairy products, pharmaceuticals, commodities inter alia, but their passion lies in social emancipation and empowerment of their fellow citizens. Their foray into this arena bears out of their philanthropic concern and a persistent research for years on solutions, which, with intervention of technology will help save poor lives and shall also help sequester a large amount of Co2 towards an improved ecosystem in a nation that has been highly vulnerable against earthquakes, inter alia – a dastardly calamity that has needed strong initiatives that could neutralize the disadvantaged poise here in the environment caused by factors such as massive deforestation and large amount of emission of Co2 in use of fossil fuel. Each HomeBiogas unit of 2 cbm helps sequester 6 Tons of Co2 in a year. In tune with their lofty vision, Ram and Bipin look forward to sequestering tens of thousands of tons of Co2 every year. By putting forth a paradigm as this, they are sure to beckon many environment-friendly initiatives in the arena of renewable, sustainable, green and clean energy that shall strengthen the ecosystem and help reduce the risk of disasters. Their vision encompasses the entire gamut of renewable energy in the arena of hydro, solar, wind and bio-energy with more specific emphasis on the gamut of Biomass, Biofuel, Biogas, Biotech and Bio-engineering with a mind to go on a backward integration emanating from tree plantations – a pledge taken to revolutionize measures of correction for the ecosystem taken today, the 5th of June, when the world commemorates the World Environment Day. Since Nepal is endowed with large untapped potentials in biomass and biofuel production, they are looking at a possible foray into the cycle of biomass, biofuel, biogas et al. In pursuit of their vision, they look forward to working with multilateral and development agencies towards a shared mission in addressing the issues as enumerated in the Sustainable Development Goals. This is one initiative in their larger vision of working on the broad gamut of renewable energy and beckoning energy security through harnessing potentials in this arena. Processing of the abundant available resource of Biomass for Biogas, inter alia, in the manufacturing arena in the future shall help them realize their mission to take it to the next level beyond the household cooking arena – i.e., to substitute fossil fuel consumption in a good measure in the areas of transport, industrial boilers and more. This shall generate large amount of green jobs and provide a much-needed fillip to the circular economy.