Shrikant Avi
Director, Venture Programs, Clean Cooking Alliance
Shrikant Avi is the Director of Venture Programs with the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA). At CCA, he is responsible for leading global and country-level venture scale-up and innovation efforts and contributing to broader market strengthening strategy. He was also part of a two-member team instrumental in initiating and developing Spark+ Africa Fund. Before joining CCA, he worked at Consilium Capital, an impact investment advisory firm based in London. At Consilium Capital, he advised on several private equity capital raise transactions for social enterprises and impact funds across the globe. Shrikant also has over five years of global markets and lending experience with Rabobank and ICICI Bank where he has worked with agriculture, renewable energy and SME companies. Shrikant holds a Master in Finance degree from London Business School, UK, MBA from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India and B.A. in Economics degree from St. Stephen’s College Delhi, India.
Day 0
October 10
Sessions by Shrikant Avi
Day 1
October 11
Sessions by Shrikant Avi
2:45 pm-3:45 pm
Breakout Room A
Scaling Modern Power Infrastructure With Electric Cooking
Electric cooking is an essential part of the solution to deliver modern power infrastructure and access to energy. To maximize this potential, clean cooking needs to be integrated into national energy planning; bringing together stakeholders to ensure aligned policies and tariffs, appropriate household energy infrastructure and accessible products.
As a potential affordable demand solution for households, electric cooking can support the financial feasibility of power generation and utilities as they strengthen and expand. This can improve the investment case for electricity infrastructure at the same time as creating the opportunity for this infrastructure investment to be directed into tackling the clean cooking challenge.
Using inspiring global examples, speakers will highlight the opportunities to scale electrification and electric cooking. They will cover the policies they have established, the tools they have used to model supply- and demand-side electric cooking scenarios and the steps they have taken to reach stakeholders and promote a supportive enabling environment for electric cooking.
Speakers
Shrikant Avi
Director, Venture Programs, Clean Cooking Alliance
Anna Clements
Lead Researcher, Tanzania and Uganda, Modern Energy Cooking Services
Ben Jeffreys
CEO, ATEC International
Surendra Labh Karna
Member National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal
Irene Wanjohi
Principal Customer Relations Officer, Kenya Power
Day 2
October 12
Sessions by Shrikant Avi
Day 3
October 13
Sessions by Shrikant Avi
Day 4
October 14
Sessions by Shrikant Avi
Sessions by Shrikant Avi
Sessions by Shrikant Avi
2:45 pm-3:45 pm
Breakout Room A
Scaling Modern Power Infrastructure With Electric Cooking
Electric cooking is an essential part of the solution to deliver modern power infrastructure and access to energy. To maximize this potential, clean cooking needs to be integrated into national energy planning; bringing together stakeholders to ensure aligned policies and tariffs, appropriate household energy infrastructure and accessible products.
As a potential affordable demand solution for households, electric cooking can support the financial feasibility of power generation and utilities as they strengthen and expand. This can improve the investment case for electricity infrastructure at the same time as creating the opportunity for this infrastructure investment to be directed into tackling the clean cooking challenge.
Using inspiring global examples, speakers will highlight the opportunities to scale electrification and electric cooking. They will cover the policies they have established, the tools they have used to model supply- and demand-side electric cooking scenarios and the steps they have taken to reach stakeholders and promote a supportive enabling environment for electric cooking.
Speakers
Shrikant Avi
Director, Venture Programs, Clean Cooking Alliance
Anna Clements
Lead Researcher, Tanzania and Uganda, Modern Energy Cooking Services
Ben Jeffreys
CEO, ATEC International
Surendra Labh Karna
Member National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal
Irene Wanjohi
Principal Customer Relations Officer, Kenya Power