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We are actively engaging with leading real estate developers and institutional investors across the country to implement district cooling through various business models. Our strategic focus looks beyond offering district cooling solutions, to the creation of a conducive ecosystem that fosters uptake of solutions promoting circularity of resource use. This is particularly important for the Indian geography that is experiencing the cascading consequences of extreme heat stress. 

Towards more sustainable cooling solutions in India we are focused on District Cooling Systems that  leverage technologies, capital, market models and 30–50-year pathways towards life-cycle energy, carbon and systems efficiency management to bring thermal comfort to all.  By consolidating cooling demand and then meeting cooling needs first through passive cooling means, followed by District Cooling and other cooling technology, our approach leads to a reduction in the overall energy need for cooling. 

District Cooling as a solution makes cooling accessible through a more democratic approach to dissemination by treating cooling as a utility. The solution can be deployed through a range of business models including Cooling as a Service (CaaS). Further, District Cooling can be integrated with other technologies such as renewable energy, waste to energy, city gas distribution, and sewage treatment plants, to create district energy systems that enable circularity of resource use and increase efficiency from a system’s point of view.

Our aim has entailed a bottom-up approach, involving direct engagement with individual developers, institutional owners, and other stakeholders to meet the market where it is, showcasing the need and value proposition of Cooling as a Service (CaaS) and the ensuing cost savings and significant sustainability and energy efficiency benefits it promises, keeping in mind planetary boundaries and mindful consumption.

Since its inception, Tabreed in India has been actively engaged to further momentum and create a district cooling and energy market through dialogues and partnerships across the value chain, including with AEEE, UNEP and GIZ to bring projects and programs that support thermal comfort as an integral component of sustainable living.  These partnerships cut across multi-laterals, think-tanks, NGOs/CSOs, businesses, not-for-profit organisations, and include collaboration with like-minded businesses in the cooling space.  We expect more collaborative initiatives to emerge in the future that build platforms for engagement with all stakeholders in the cooling sector.