The Infrastructure and Development Services Practice (I&DS) of PA Consulting Group is the institutional contractor to USAID for the SARI/Energy Program. Tetra Tech (www.tetratech.com) is purchasing the I&DS Practice of PA. SARI/Energy Program Unaffected as Tetra Tech Purchases the I&DS Practice of PA Consulting Group The Infrastructure and Development Services Practice (I&DS) of PA Consulting Group is the institutional contractor to USAID for the South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy Program (SARI/Energy). Tetra Tech (www.tetratech.com) is purchasing the I&DS Practice of PA. Please see the attached Press Release. The Arlington office will remain I&DS’s US Headquarters. The Gurgaon, India office, which administers the SARI/Energy Program, will become a Tetra Tech office. I&DS will be a discrete business unit within Tetra Tech and Mr. Dean White will continue leading this unit. The effective purchase date is scheduled for 23 July 2010. Email to the PA email addresses will be automatically forwarded to the new Tetra Tech email addresses for the next three months. External phone numbers (land lines, mobile numbers, fax numbers, etc.) should remain the same. I&DS’s administration of the SARI/Energy Program is not affected by this change in corporate ownership. The present team members continue to advance SARI/Energy. If you desire more information, please contract Mr. Michael Hajny, Chief of Party, SARI/Energy Program at either his new email address michael.hajny@tetratech.com, or at his previous email address michael.hajny@paconsulting.com. 21 July 2010

The South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy (SARI/E) Program of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in cooperation with the Lighting Research Center, USA, and Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority, will hold a two-day workshop on establishing a first-of-its-kind Regional Centre for Excellence in Energy Efficient Lighting (RCEEEL). The workshop will be held at the Crystal Upper Floor at Taj Samudra, Colombo, Sri Lanka on April 28-29, 2009, and a formal launch ceremony will be held at the Crystal Lower Floor at Taj Samudra April 27th 2009.

This workshop is a three day event that will address topics such as gender awareness in energy programs, gender streamlining and gender auditing, renewable energy technology and green architecture, micro finance and income generation, and capacity building, best practices, and information sharing. SAWIE working group members will deliver presentations on their current initiatives in their respective countries, and field trips and case studies will be conducted

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in cooperation with the Energy Market Group, U.S., is organizing a three-day training program on `Electricity Markets’ for the South Asia Region. The training program is designed to address such issues as competition, market power, transparency and governance. Customized for electricity sector workers from different regions of South Asia, the training program will also take up issues related to wholesale electricity trading, connecting market prices and power procurement costs with end-user tariffs, essential elements to efficient electricity market structure and design in the South Asian Region. The training program will help participants develop an understanding of the basic concepts related to electricity market design. The specific training components will include pricing and contracts, energy and reserve markets, creation of enabling environments for investments in generation, trading, system operation, coordination of a multi-participant sector etc. Experts from India have also been invited to present an overview of the Indian Electricity Market during the last day of training at Katmandu and Colombo. USAID’s SARI/Energy program is sponsoring the training. The primary objective of the SARI/Energy program is to promote energy security in South Asia through three key activities areas: cross border energy trade, energy market formation, and regional clean energy development. The program facilitates more efficient regional energy resource utilization, works towards transparent and profitable energy practices, mitigates the environmental impacts of energy production, and increases regional access to energy. For Nepal and Bhutan, the training program is being organized at Hyatt Regency, Katmandu from August 5-8, 2008. For participants from Bangladesh and Afghanistan, it will be held at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel from August 12 -14, 2008. For Sri Lanka and Maldives, the training program is scheduled at Bentota Beach Hotel, Bentota from August 18-20, 2008. For more information on the workshop or SARI/Energy, please contact Mercy Thomas at methomas@usaid.gov

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SARI/E has been honored by Asian Development Bank with a “special wind visionary” recognition. This is conferred to SARI/E in recognition of its contribution to wind power development through wind geospatial mapping and assessment studies in the 8 South Asian countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Bhutan. Studies in Nepal and Bangladesh are currently going on and will be rolled out in August 2010. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) of the U.S. Department of Energy implements the wind energy program for USAID/SARI/E. Winston Bowman from RDMA Bangkok received this honor on behalf of SARI/E at the Asia Clean Energy Forum in Manila on June 21, 2010 from Director Anthony Jude of ADB.