Chandrakanta Kesavan Center works in the areas relevant to policymaking and developing practical solutions to the problems of climate change, with an aim to spearhead the development of these solutions to help India and the world combat climate change. An important aspect of the Center’s mandate is to spearhead the technology and policy communication to different stakeholders.
The Center is named after Dr. Chandrakanta Kesavan, who pioneered the entry of Indian women in the fields of science and engineering and was established at IIT Kanpur through generous gift by its distinguished alumnus, Mr. Sudhakar Kesavan (1976, Chemical Engineering).
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Objectives
- To spearhead energy and climate policy solutions to help India address climate change related problems.
- To emerge as a platform for bringing together eminent academicians, technologists, researchers and policy makers to discuss and address energy policy and climate issues.
- To strengthen and promote outreach, communication, grassroots engagement in the areas of energy policy and climate change issues.
- To help the IIT Kanpur campus to become carbon neutral.
IIT Kanpur to become NetZero
The Center will spearhead IIT Kanpur’s commitment to being a NetZero campus. This will allow IIT Kanpur to be a showcase testbed for the transition to a low and eventually zero-carbon campus. This will entail in-house studies and interventions and will involve undergraduate and graduate students in the projects. The experience and expertise gained by IITK in making itself NetZero will be helpful in scaling these efforts nationwide.
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News
“Renewable energy generation is changing the Indian energy profile but much more is needed”, an informative article written by Prof. Rajeev Jindal, Prof. Mousmi Prasad, and Prof. Ashish Garg all from the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering, IIT Kanpur discusses the transition in India’s energy landscape and the role of renewable energy in it. Read more
Aravinda De Chinnu Arul Babu, Raj S. Srivastava, Aakash C Rai, "Impact of climate change on the heating and cooling load components of an archetypical residential room in major Indian cities Author links open overlay panel". Publication Link
Vishwa Deepak Kumar, Laltu Chandra, Sudipto Mukhopadhyay, Rajiv Shekhar, "Simulated Experimental Assessment of a Laboratory-Scale Solar Convective Furnace System". Publication Link
Vishal Ranawade, & Co-Workers, "Multilayered PCMs-based cooling solution for photovoltaic modules: Modelling and experimental study Author links open overlay panel". Publication Link