A FOUR-MEMBER technical team of specialists, headed by Associate Director of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Dr. G Rudra Narsimha Rao, is in Guyana for three months to spearhead phase two of technical support to the Guyana Government in the areas of climate change and energy.
Among the aspects they will be looking at are a best practice manual to promote energy management and conservation of rice mills, a technical study to improve sugar production energy efficiency, investments in Guyana Water

Incorporated (GWI), and demand management and gasifier technology application for sawmills.
The initiative also includes guidance and recommendations about improving energy efficiency in buildings, and street lighting, among others.
In the process, the team from Delhi, India, will work with agencies such as the Guyana Rice Development Board, Guyana Energy Agency and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), and the brainstorming of collaboration with government and non-government sectors.
The team met President Donald Ramotar yesterday for talks in the company of Head of the Office of Climate Change Shyam Nokta, explaining about energy and operational cost peculiarities in factory operations locally, and the importance of promoting energy management and conservation.
Engagements between the Guyana Government and TERI commenced in 2011, following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at providing support to Guyana’s climate initiatives and the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).
March 2012 marked the first mission to Guyana, when the focus was on assessing energy initiatives like solar energy for lighting, micro-hydro and improving energy efficiency in the different sectors of Guyana’s economy.
The potential and suitability of biomass gasifiers and the provision of suitable technology were also examined.
TERI was established in 1974. Nobel Prize Laureate and Chairman of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr. R. K. Pachauri, is its head.
Late last year Dr. Pachauri was installed Chairman of Guyana’s well-known international rainforest conservation, research and development centre, Iwokrama.(GINA)